marauder@fluke.UUCP (Bill Landsborough) (05/23/85)
A trick I use which works very well on my Kawasaki 1100 is to run the cylinder without any gasoline in the carburetor! First shut off the gas petcock. Then unscrew the float bowl bolt on the bottom of the carburetor. Gasoline will run out so watch for open flame. Allow the bowl to drain and replace the bolt. Then remove a spark plug from that same cylinder and insert the pump hose and attach it to the valve stem of the tire. Without turning on the petcock, start the bike and pump up the tire running on the gasoline which is in the remaining three? carburetor float bowls. No gas fumes or gas goes into the tire and there is no danger. -- "Greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the world." 1John 4:4