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Flushed the coolant, cleaned the carbs, and changed the oil today. Hooked up a spare battery I had from another bike, and rigged a gravity fed fuel tank (one I normally use for carb syncing) to the carbs. Cranked it over and it started up and idled for a few seconds.
Shut it down pretty quick because carbs started leaking pretty bad. If I ran a gravity fed tank to the carbs instead of using the regular tank /petcock set up, is there a chance it would flood the carbs? Going to rebuild them regardless, more just a question for future.
Also, when the bike was running, I noticed a ton of red/brown frothy liquid pouring out of the drain hole on one of the exhaust pipes. Spoke to the previous owner, turns out he poured ATF down the cylinders to try and loosen them up a while back. Is this a thing? I've never heard of it before.
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