Once again I find myself lagging behind, but events in my home life has meant that more time and attention was spent on other factors/family/interests etc.
After the last entry, I awaited patiently for my parts to arrive from Yamaha Canada and when they did, I got right back to work and replaced the float seat and needle. Now, it seems as though my days of leakage are behind me...<touch wood>
Since then, I have winterized BOTH rides but I still go out and start the TW periodically. The other day, I watched a YouTube video from Project Farm where he went over the many different types of fuel stabilizers and additives. This is where I lost all faith in my go-to product: SeaFoam.
After watching some of his results, it became clear that although SeaFoam may be a decent interim carb cleaner, it fails miserably as a stabilizer/protector, so I decided to end our relationship and move on to something else.
This same video showed the wonderful results of STABIL as a fuel stabilizer and protector of internal parts, so I bought a small bottle of it today and put it to use. As for carb/fuel system I will probably be leaning towards one of the many products that have PEA as an ingredient, since it is proven to be more effective than just plain solvents.
After Christmas, I discovered that ProCycle has an extended fuel-mixture screw for this model now, so of course I ordered one! Going to be picking it up on Monday and hopefully installing it soon.
Cheryl Tiegs has also been winterized, although since I pulled the battery...I wasn't able to give it a decent STABIL treatment.
Maybe I'll give her a good dose of PEA in the Spring. Until then, the NEW battery gets topped up every 3 weeks or so, just to keep it healthy.
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