Hi bud, Im in aberdeen. If your still having problems when i get my bike back on the road I could head up your neck of the woods and give you a hand. I might not be able to help but it couldnt hurt... Two heads are better than one....

hey man, that would be great! just let me know when your bike is on the road :) i would feel a lot better if someone came to look at it, like you said two heads are better than one.

okay, so i came back home today, and i wanted to check the oil level, as soon as i unscrewed the oil tap the oil squirted out all over the floor... and kept spilling, it didnt stop untll 2-3 minutes of spillage...however the oil was like water. not heavy. it was yellow (like petrol) see through and light. it smelled like heavy petrol. the oil must of got contaminated with the petrol. but the thing that confuses me is how the fuck, could that even happen when the bike was just standing there for 2 months not running?? this bike seriously is causing me a whole fuck lod of trouble.... im not even riding it and its getting worse.

Your knackered fuel tap leaked into your carbs which in turn leaked into your cylinder and down into the crank cases.

I'd change the oil twice, and as you know a new fuel tap is a must.

Is this bike still not running and on the road?

I'll give you £50 and a packet of Jammy Dodgers for it.

I'll raise you and a Cadbury's cream egg......that'll take some licking

aah bikemonkey, i assumed it was that, because i knew the tap was fudged. thanks now i know why it was like that. thunderace, nope still not on road. il get there. in the end.

Was the tap not in the 'off' position when laid up?

it was in the off position, but it seems its letting fuel flow even on OFF position.


also i was thinking, since the plugs are drowned with petrol, does that mean they are dead? or can i restore them by burning the tips of it with a blow torch? because that was a new plug set, that hadnt even covered 100 miles.

I had a bandit recently, which I was selling for a mate. I flooded it and do you think I could get it to run. I did the same with the plugs, used a blow torch, still wouldn't go. Then remembered I ahd some old plugs out the YB. Dropped them all in and it fired and run perfectly. I then dropped the old ones in one by one and on first firing up it would run on 3 and then 4. Eventually I had all the original plugs in and running perfectly again. I was surprised that the blow torch wouldn't burn them off enough to run. You need another set of plugs most likely