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charlie
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I've asked this before, but I want to get as many ideas as I can before I go back out to work again. Here's the story:
Rebuilt all 4 carbs, started it up for about 1 minute, it ran great.
Next day, started up (had to turn over a few times, but ran fine once it got a little warmer), drove it around the neighborhood for about 10-15 min at a distance of about 6-8 miles. During that time I took it to wide open throttle with no problems and let it idle several times with no problems or hiccups.
Brought it back to the house, turned engine off, let it sit for a couple minutes, started it back up to move it into the garage, and the engine struggled and died immediately. It started again reluctantly, and when I tried to give it throttle it hesitated greatly and didn't run smoothly at all, when I let go of the throttle it died again. Did this a few more times with more and more trouble keeping it running each time, and now it won't start at all.
It's not the gas tank because fuel filter is full, it's not the air filter because that's new, my timing light says I have ignition on all cylinders although I haven't seen the plugs (can't seem to get them out..)
My intuition is that it's flooding - just seems like that to me, but it might not be that. Either way, it got worse and worse, but not until after the bike had been running for a while and got plenty warm. I'm hesitant to say that it might be flooding just because it ran for so long.
Could it be grit in the fuel getting into the carbs?
Could it be something bad in the ignition (like the capacitors under the points cover)?
Those are my 2 leading theories.
Thanks for any ideas!
Rebuilt all 4 carbs, started it up for about 1 minute, it ran great.
Next day, started up (had to turn over a few times, but ran fine once it got a little warmer), drove it around the neighborhood for about 10-15 min at a distance of about 6-8 miles. During that time I took it to wide open throttle with no problems and let it idle several times with no problems or hiccups.
Brought it back to the house, turned engine off, let it sit for a couple minutes, started it back up to move it into the garage, and the engine struggled and died immediately. It started again reluctantly, and when I tried to give it throttle it hesitated greatly and didn't run smoothly at all, when I let go of the throttle it died again. Did this a few more times with more and more trouble keeping it running each time, and now it won't start at all.
It's not the gas tank because fuel filter is full, it's not the air filter because that's new, my timing light says I have ignition on all cylinders although I haven't seen the plugs (can't seem to get them out..)
My intuition is that it's flooding - just seems like that to me, but it might not be that. Either way, it got worse and worse, but not until after the bike had been running for a while and got plenty warm. I'm hesitant to say that it might be flooding just because it ran for so long.
Could it be grit in the fuel getting into the carbs?
Could it be something bad in the ignition (like the capacitors under the points cover)?
Those are my 2 leading theories.
Thanks for any ideas!