Well, I was able to get the 98 Valk started last week. Thanks for the tips and advice in the link below.
http://www.valkyrieforum.com/bbs/index.php/topic,82370.0.htmlNow, I came back from a short ride and turn off the fuel petcock and ran the bike until it was out of gas in the carbs and died and turned off the fuel petcock switch. It sat for a few days and I started it to adjust the idle, however it started leaking on the left side of the carbs from the left carb vent tube only. I then turned it off and fuel petcock switch. I came back after a few days to try and figure out why it was leaking because I figured I caused a carb float to stick by running the bike until it had no fuel in the carbs. I took out all the spark plugs to identify which carbs were affected and started the bike. A little bit of gas blew out of #2 cylinder spark plug opening. Repeated starting for a few times until no evidence of gas in the cylinder. Put all spark plugs back in, tapped on bottom of the left side carbs to see if I could unstick the carb floats, then drained carbs on left side and shot some air in them to see if the floats would unstick. I then started the bike, but still had left side carb vent hose leaking gas.
What should I do next? A few questions:
1) re-clean carbs and replace parts with new? I had just cleaned them and carb parts looked great even though the bike sat up for 3 years.
2) try a different way to unstick the floats?
3) am I at risk for future Hydro lock damage since gas is leaking from the carb vent tubes?
Thanks