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I recently repainted my candy red '85 Rebel 250 matte black with plasti dip. This involved removing the front and rear fenders along with the gas tank and repainted them.
After painting and reassembling, the bike just wouldn't start! As soon as I tipped it over to put it back into the garage, the carb overflow tube spewed out gas. First thought was that float was stuck, so I removed and cleaned the carb and replaced the float needle seeing as it was a little funny.
Today I put the cleaned carb and the gas tank back on and tried to start it. Life! The bike would roughly idle with full choke and eventually I was able to take it around the block. Put it back into garage and an hour later went to clean up and noticed gas everywhere with fuel flowing out of overflow. Left the petcock on reserve (near empty gas tank) and then shut it off. WHY?!
TL;DR
Bike wouldn't start, overflow tube spewing, cleaned carb, overflow tube still spewing, why?
After painting and reassembling, the bike just wouldn't start! As soon as I tipped it over to put it back into the garage, the carb overflow tube spewed out gas. First thought was that float was stuck, so I removed and cleaned the carb and replaced the float needle seeing as it was a little funny.
Today I put the cleaned carb and the gas tank back on and tried to start it. Life! The bike would roughly idle with full choke and eventually I was able to take it around the block. Put it back into garage and an hour later went to clean up and noticed gas everywhere with fuel flowing out of overflow. Left the petcock on reserve (near empty gas tank) and then shut it off. WHY?!
TL;DR
Bike wouldn't start, overflow tube spewing, cleaned carb, overflow tube still spewing, why?