corksil
January 26th, 2014, 10:44 PM
Long story short, I started bogging and lost power. Bike wouldn't re-start, fuel all over the damn place, bike was really flooded. Fuel in the pipe, fuel in the combustion chamber, fuel god-damn-everywhere. Foul'd the plugs... had to tow home.. FUBAR. Main jet too big I suppose. Bogging and loss of power was due to running on one cylinder instead of two.
Float level on the carbs. How often does this need adjustment on these bikes? After pulling the carbs and draining the float bowls into two separate cups, I got more fuel out of one than the other. The carb with MORE fuel in the float bowl was the cylinder that wouldn't run and continued to misfire even after fresh spark plugs.
Friend thinks I have float level mis-adjustment. He wanted to take a screwdriver and bend the tab on the float to adjust the level. I told him I'd research this before I fukked anything up.
I don't think anyone has messed with this before I'm about to.
How do I check/adjust this? I have my own intuition to follow, but it'd be nice to hear some educated opinions before I make matters worse.
Tomorrow I'll re-assemble with smaller (106 DJ main jets) after everything has dried out. Clean the plugs again, re-assemble, and take the bike up and down the street near my shop to try and work the excess fuel out. Already removed the exhaust pipes (areaP) and dumped out the unburned fuel.
Any ideas?
And my second question -- if I flooded the bike.... really really flooded the bike, we're talking fuel puddling in the air filter, puddling in the exhaust pipe, enough fuel all over the damn place to take a bath in, enough fuel to start a nice bonfire, fuel enough to re-capture and stockpile in the event of apocalypse, enough fuel to wash my hands with for the next month.....
Have I compromised my oil? Just put 34 bucks worth of fresh oil in the day before this happened -- I'd hate to have to dump it and replace it (because it's polluted with fuel..) -- but I will if you guys think it's smart. Can I leave the oil cap off for a few days and let the fuel evaporate out of the oil? Otherwise I'm back to the part-store for another 2 liters of paying way-the-ufck-more-than-it's-worth-for-oil.
Float level on the carbs. How often does this need adjustment on these bikes? After pulling the carbs and draining the float bowls into two separate cups, I got more fuel out of one than the other. The carb with MORE fuel in the float bowl was the cylinder that wouldn't run and continued to misfire even after fresh spark plugs.
Friend thinks I have float level mis-adjustment. He wanted to take a screwdriver and bend the tab on the float to adjust the level. I told him I'd research this before I fukked anything up.
I don't think anyone has messed with this before I'm about to.
How do I check/adjust this? I have my own intuition to follow, but it'd be nice to hear some educated opinions before I make matters worse.
Tomorrow I'll re-assemble with smaller (106 DJ main jets) after everything has dried out. Clean the plugs again, re-assemble, and take the bike up and down the street near my shop to try and work the excess fuel out. Already removed the exhaust pipes (areaP) and dumped out the unburned fuel.
Any ideas?
And my second question -- if I flooded the bike.... really really flooded the bike, we're talking fuel puddling in the air filter, puddling in the exhaust pipe, enough fuel all over the damn place to take a bath in, enough fuel to start a nice bonfire, fuel enough to re-capture and stockpile in the event of apocalypse, enough fuel to wash my hands with for the next month.....
Have I compromised my oil? Just put 34 bucks worth of fresh oil in the day before this happened -- I'd hate to have to dump it and replace it (because it's polluted with fuel..) -- but I will if you guys think it's smart. Can I leave the oil cap off for a few days and let the fuel evaporate out of the oil? Otherwise I'm back to the part-store for another 2 liters of paying way-the-ufck-more-than-it's-worth-for-oil.