Is this from ethano?

[Mercaholic]

I took two of my older Suzuki in-line fours out of storage and noticed that one carb on each bike was overflowing with gas. Obviously one float was stuck. Anyway, after sitting for a couple of hours, it stopped leaking so I assume the float got hung up until the fuel emersed it long enough to free it from sticking.

I normally drain all four carbs on the bike before summer to avoid this exact problem in the spring.

Could ethanol be the culprit causing the floats to stick?

 

[Brian P]

Floats have been sticking on bikes left sitting for extended periods, since long before they started putting ethanol in gasoline ...

 

[bobjohnson]

Its just crap stuck in the needle or the float hinge was gunked up. Bang on the bowls with the rubber end of a screw driver or a rubber mallet, should free it up. If not, drop the bowl, check out whats going on. Had the same problem when i pulled my bike out of storage, was a piece of the horrible kreem liner (NEVER use kreem, lesson learned) stuck on the needle tip. 5 minute fix, and it only took that long because i had to find a screw driver that would fit