Several things going on here.
I'd order the petcock, tear down the carb and clean it, and pull the ig switch and take it to a lock smith to make a key.
On the bottom of the ig switch (as viewed when installed on the bike) might be a stamped number starting with a letter and several numbers. It might be covered by a black strip. A key can be made from that number.
cylinder flooding can be caused by a bad petcock alone or a bad petcock and a bad float valve in combination. which is why I recommend the replace petcock and clean carb both. If it's been sitting for a year, cleaning will probably needed anyway. Check the float valve in particular.
for the short term, you can pull the ig switch and jump all the terminals together for it to run. I don't think any are ground.
which would be black with a white stripe.
next thing you should be aware of, don't run the starter for a long time. No more than a minute on, 15 minutes off. feel the starter, it should not be hot.
And if while starting, the volts drop below 10v, it's not going to start.
And if it drops to point it just clicks rapidly, you've gone way to far.
Read the following articles and if hubby is going to work on it, either list out the things mentioned or have him read it. Some it going to be redundant.
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