The native Honda store, my each day trip is an ‘04 HONDA HELIX, sends me the oldsters with BMW ‘airhead’ points, as they don’t service them: to outdated and don’t know them. A brand new rider with a properly used and curious trying /7 moto reveals up; lately bought and is aware of nothing about them ? Says his carburetors all the time appear moist, even thought he turns the petcocks off when parked !
OK… let’s have a look; could be carburetor floats, junk within the bowls clogging float needle ?
I get down to slide the bowl bails off and see the gasoline tank seam is moist ? Run my hand underneath the size of the tank, either side and… a’yup: gasoline ! Nearer look and see little bitty blisters within the aftermarket paint job, which had been by way of ‘cut-n-buff’… the ‘sins’ are exhibiting by means of the gloss !
Flush kind /7 cap, which I take away; trying into a couple of third of a tank of fuel; the innards inform a story of varnish and water ! Break the brand new proprietor’s coronary heart with the dangerous information: tank is rusting out within the backside, gonna worsen.
He’s native and I counsel he get again house, and park the moto outdoors till I get there. Observe in my ‘cage’ as I intend to empty, take away the tank, and poke a number of blisters… look deeply into the “Purple Baron’s Revenge”.
U-G-L-Y 
We take the tank again to my store, let’s see what might be accomplished… “a short while later” !
Effective trying flower pot, door cease you might have there… I felt badly that I didn’t have nor know of a alternative tank 