Used sporty help
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Used sporty help
Looking to buy a used sporty, has not been started for over a year? Needs a battery, do I ask owner to jump start it with old gas in tank? Do I bring some new gas and dump in a few gallons? Or just buy it and get home, drain gas, change fluids? 2008 so it's FI. WHAT should I do to b safe?
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Originally Posted by gillie64
Looking to buy a used sporty, has not been started for over a year? Needs a battery, do I ask owner to jump start it with old gas in tank? Do I bring some new gas and dump in a few gallons? Or just buy it and get home, drain gas, change fluids? 2008 so it's FI. WHAT should I do to b safe?
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If it were me, I'd want to hear it run before getting it home only to find something serious is not right. Put the fresh gas in there with a new battery. Any bad gas problems wouldn't change much there or at home. Running it will eventually push out the bad gas. If it sounds good( no loud noises) bring it home.
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you can try a jump box....I'd at least want to hear it turn over an listen for weird noises. I imagine it's harder to drain the gas out of an efi bike but there's treatments for old gas to help it fire.
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