JeepPhisherman
03-01-2007, 12:11 AM
Alrighty, I rode my bike to class this morning, and came home. Everything was running fine. Parked it in the garage, ate some lunch. Tried to leave the house about 2 hours later, and the bike is running funny.
It started up fine with choke, but when I switched the choke off, it wasn't running well, a stumbling idle. So, I switched the choke back on, shut the garage and attempted to leave. When I try to take off from a start, the bike is stumbling like it's going to stall out. So, I pull over, turn off choke, restart, same symptoms. Pull the bike back in the garage to fiddle. Turn it on to let it run some thinking it will just go away. Feck around and the bike dies a couple of times on non-choke.
Restart the bike, go to take it around the block and it's still wanting to stall. I have to rev up to 3ish grand to keep it from stalling comming out of first and now the bike has absolutely 0 balls - my saturn ion rental in Cali accelerated better. So, pull back in the garage to check everything out. Air cleaner's dirty, but not dirty enough to cause this ****, but I order a replacement. Pull the plugs, thinking it's probably due to one of the cylinders not firing. Plugs are a little dirty, so I wire brush them, and I'm going to pick up some spares tomorrow.
Now I'm thinking it might be one of the pilots in the carbs, which could be plugged not allowing fuel well enough into the cylinder. (2 carbs on the bike, 1 for each cylinder) Any idea on how to remedy this without removing the carbs? Cause I don't know **** about carbs and don't want to learn now. If I do have to take them off, I'm going to go ahead and rejet and buy or build some new pipes.
Or, is my carb idea stupid. Maybe it's just not firing? But then there should be backfiring, correct?
It started up fine with choke, but when I switched the choke off, it wasn't running well, a stumbling idle. So, I switched the choke back on, shut the garage and attempted to leave. When I try to take off from a start, the bike is stumbling like it's going to stall out. So, I pull over, turn off choke, restart, same symptoms. Pull the bike back in the garage to fiddle. Turn it on to let it run some thinking it will just go away. Feck around and the bike dies a couple of times on non-choke.
Restart the bike, go to take it around the block and it's still wanting to stall. I have to rev up to 3ish grand to keep it from stalling comming out of first and now the bike has absolutely 0 balls - my saturn ion rental in Cali accelerated better. So, pull back in the garage to check everything out. Air cleaner's dirty, but not dirty enough to cause this ****, but I order a replacement. Pull the plugs, thinking it's probably due to one of the cylinders not firing. Plugs are a little dirty, so I wire brush them, and I'm going to pick up some spares tomorrow.
Now I'm thinking it might be one of the pilots in the carbs, which could be plugged not allowing fuel well enough into the cylinder. (2 carbs on the bike, 1 for each cylinder) Any idea on how to remedy this without removing the carbs? Cause I don't know **** about carbs and don't want to learn now. If I do have to take them off, I'm going to go ahead and rejet and buy or build some new pipes.
Or, is my carb idea stupid. Maybe it's just not firing? But then there should be backfiring, correct?