Hi all
Just got my 1992 ST1100 last week- 50 000 km's-first sport tourer owned-been a cruiser guy ( Nomad) up until now. I'm no mechanic of note-actually if it wasn't for YouTube tutorials I would be totally clueless !! I did tinker around with the bike today-removed the left and front covers-seems very apparent that the PO did not maintain bike well at all. There was no coolant at all in the reservoir (topped up) and the rear brake fluid was low as were the front brake and clutch reservoirs.Put in new DOT4 fluid.
The question I have is-on all the carbed bikes I have had previously-there has been a petcock, which I have turned to the "OFF" position when putting the bike away for the Winter and then allowing the engine to run until it dies-thus getting most of the fuel out of the carbs-so they dont get gunked up during the Winter. But I dont see a petcock on the ST1100- do you have to manually drain the carbs ?
Because of this lack of maintenance by PO what should I be looking at first to ensure some kind of preventative maintenance ? I checked the oil sight glass-it looks to be at correct level, albeit it very black-will do the oil and filter change tomorrow.
Appreciate all the advise in anticipation
cheers
Just got my 1992 ST1100 last week- 50 000 km's-first sport tourer owned-been a cruiser guy ( Nomad) up until now. I'm no mechanic of note-actually if it wasn't for YouTube tutorials I would be totally clueless !! I did tinker around with the bike today-removed the left and front covers-seems very apparent that the PO did not maintain bike well at all. There was no coolant at all in the reservoir (topped up) and the rear brake fluid was low as were the front brake and clutch reservoirs.Put in new DOT4 fluid.
The question I have is-on all the carbed bikes I have had previously-there has been a petcock, which I have turned to the "OFF" position when putting the bike away for the Winter and then allowing the engine to run until it dies-thus getting most of the fuel out of the carbs-so they dont get gunked up during the Winter. But I dont see a petcock on the ST1100- do you have to manually drain the carbs ?
Because of this lack of maintenance by PO what should I be looking at first to ensure some kind of preventative maintenance ? I checked the oil sight glass-it looks to be at correct level, albeit it very black-will do the oil and filter change tomorrow.
Appreciate all the advise in anticipation
cheers