Anthony W wrote:
Steve Calvin wrote:

Some motorcycle manuals have some rather lame advice in them. If you
store a bike for the winter, drain the carb but leave the tank full.
This way the tank won't rust out.

Come spring drain the gas into a can and put it in your pickup truck.
Then start the bike with fresh gas..

Tony
former motorcycle mechanic
Owner: OregonMotorcycleParts.com



Never done that with any of my bikes and haven't ever had a problem


You probably live in a dryer climate than Oregon... Here an empty steel
gas tank will rust over winter and I’ve seen many half full tanks rust
above the fuel level in storage.

Tony

Nope. I live in New York in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Dry? *Far* from it.
When I was getting ready to put the bike or Vettes to "sleep" for the
winter I'd always run the tank to at least 1/4, then add stabil and fill
up with the highest octane I could find and run it long enough to make
sure that the carb/lines were full of the stabilized gas. Put 'em away
on a Battery Tender Plus and that was it until I took 'em outta
mothballs in the Spring.

I do the same thing with all of my equipment. Full tank and stabilized
fuel for storage and forget about them. No problems with any of 'em.


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Steve