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Originally Posted by mrlmd1
If you get it started and running take it for a little ride and get it warmed up, then change the oil and filter instead of letting it sit another 6 months with dirty oil in it. Who know when it was changed last? Clean and wax it before you put it away for storage, to keep the rest of the rust from getting worse. Fill the gas tank before storage to eliminate moisture from condensing in the tank (water in the gas), and run some carb cleaner/fuel stabilizer through it to keep the carb from getting gunked up over the winter. If you leave it outside, plug up the exhaust outlet in the muffler with a rag or something to keep little critters and bugs from building a nest in there. Either remove the battery so you can bring it indoors and charge it once a month or put pigtail leads on it so you can hook up a battery charger/tender once a month. Then cover it up and don't start it 'till the spring when you are ready to ride it. If you bring it indoors, like in a garage, do the same thing. If you bring it into the house then you have all winter to polish and spiff it up and do all the other maintenance on it at your leisure with no excuses for a dirty bad running bike in the spring.
To answer why the gas tank and seat are loose you will have to remove them. Maybe the rubber bushings are old and dried out or cracked or missing. You will know why they are loose after you look at them.
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Thanks a million, great tips. Do bugs really crawl into the exhaust?