How bad is it to pour water on a cold bike? By jaxrhapsody (Read 620 times)

[jaxrhapsody]

I had to do it earlier to get it started this afternoon, but tonight, it froze up, so I did it again, and the starter stopped working. It was too cold to kickstart. My buddy helped me get it in his dining room. I didn't have time to try and screw with it, because I'm trying to catch the last bus.

I'm gonna go get it in two days, I'm hoping I didn't just screw it up after getting it fixed. I won't be able to do anything until then.

[richardv]

As you have learned it is a bad thing to do. The water gets into places it shouldn't. I hope getting it into the indoors takes care of things. Then get it started and let it get good and warm.
You must be having the same kind of weather I am. It's -3ºF right now at 6am.

[jaxrhapsody]

Jan 13, 2016 6:32:19 GMT -6 richardv said:

As you have learned it is a bad thing to do. The water gets into places it shouldn't. I hope getting it into the indoors takes care of things. Then get it started and let it get good and warm.
You must be having the same kind of weather I am. It's -3ºF right now at 6am.

Okay, so I'm back over here to get it, and what happened was I had it the kill switch the night before. I turned that back on, and went to start it, and it about did a burnout on his carpet. It was 20 or below that night, now it went back up to 50.

[jaxrhapsody]

It seems to have a high idle, now, and sitting at red lights is starting to burn the clutch up. Should I adjust the idle screw, or will it fix itself?

[jct842]

turn the screw

[crwford]

I bet we won't be throwing water on her anymore ?

[Alleyoop]

Getting it all wet and if you did not do anything other than that I can only think of one thing to cause the high idle. CHECK the AIR FILTER it may be water soaked and causing the high idle.
Alleyoop

[jaxrhapsody]

Turns out the water didn't hurt anything, what happened was I managed to hit the kill switch, attempting to kickstart it, but no, no more water regardless. I tried to adjust the idle screw, I backed it out, and the butterfly valve didn't follow with it.I'm about to try and tinker with it again, see if I can't get it to close all the way.

[jaxrhapsody]

So after screwing with it for about 20min, I noticed the problem was the throttle.

It wasn't snapping back as it should, I could close the throttle by hand, but it'd stick at that one spot, when I teisted the throttle.

I decided to take the throttle apart, and found the problem.

the cable was- for lack of a better term- kinked, or hung up where the barrel end sits. So I freed it, and the valve closed against the screw.

I went about readjusting the idle, did as you guys said, I let it run for newrly ten minutes, and started painstakingly backing out the screw in small increments, and stopping(just in case), and blipping the throttle. It took long enough that by the time I got the wheel to crawl to a stop, turned it off, and started it back up, it actually idled without an uprev.

[richardv]

Sounds like that throttle cable could use a good lubrication. The water may have gotten in there and along with that kink caused binding.
Keep her dry my fiend.

[jct842]

I would replace the cable. It will only get worse in time. What are your plans should it stick while riding in traffic? Health insurance all paid up?

[Alleyoop]

Yes not a good feeling when riding and the throttle cable gets stuck

[jerryscript]

Keep in mind, this is exactly why you have a kill switch, if the throttle gets stuck open while riding, hit the kill switch!

[jaxrhapsody]

I have another issue, and didnt want to start a new thread.

It runs fine, but is there anything i can do to stop the throttle from sticking open like it does, when its cold? Like, could I oil the linkage, and cable to get it to stop?