Post by abdulmuhsee on May 5, 2010 12:43:00 GMT -6
Alright. After I added some seafoam in the gas tank, I got about 4 days of trouble-free riding. However, the problem has now returned with a vengeance; it strikes randomly with loss of throttle accompanied by loud spitting noises. Sometimes working the throttle will produce another spit and throttle will return, but other times it will not and the engine will shut off after the bike slows down. Even when throttle does not return, a muted engine noise can be heard while trying to feed it gas, like a softer variation of what noise the engine normally makes when the bike is running fine.
Sometimes when it dies it will start up again and run for awhile and sometimes it will start up and die immediately. Sometimes it won't start up again which is usually remedied by letting the bike rest on its side for about 20 minutes and I get a few more miles out of it before it happens again. Sometimes I just hear it start to ignite for half a second before it goes back to not starting. Sometimes it starts up and rides fine.
All in all, I spent 7 hours getting home, part way riding and restarting it, partway pushing it, and the rest of the way walking and calling for a tow. I removed the panels and have taken a picture of its right and left side so I can get help diagnosing and fixing this problem and doing whatever maintenance I should be doing.
Please repost the pictures with arrows pointing to what I need to check/do something with/clean along with a detailed, layman description of how to do it. Explain it to me like I'm a five-year-old from a remote farming community in Bulgaria so I understand what I'm doing and how doing what I'm doing will affect the bike.
Thank you all for your help.
Sometimes when it dies it will start up again and run for awhile and sometimes it will start up and die immediately. Sometimes it won't start up again which is usually remedied by letting the bike rest on its side for about 20 minutes and I get a few more miles out of it before it happens again. Sometimes I just hear it start to ignite for half a second before it goes back to not starting. Sometimes it starts up and rides fine.
All in all, I spent 7 hours getting home, part way riding and restarting it, partway pushing it, and the rest of the way walking and calling for a tow. I removed the panels and have taken a picture of its right and left side so I can get help diagnosing and fixing this problem and doing whatever maintenance I should be doing.
Please repost the pictures with arrows pointing to what I need to check/do something with/clean along with a detailed, layman description of how to do it. Explain it to me like I'm a five-year-old from a remote farming community in Bulgaria so I understand what I'm doing and how doing what I'm doing will affect the bike.
Thank you all for your help.