Subject: Dying at stop (long)
Author: Prusnek
Date: Jun 17, 2005, 3:58 PM
Post ID: 1719038004
AJ:
On some bikes the starter button doesn't make contact at the bottom
when you push it all the way in, it makes contact about half way and
uncontacts all the way in. Try just pushing it in slowly and see where
it engages the starter. Other than that, you should eliminate the usual
suspects of contacts at the battery and at the starter solenoid and the
ground. And a good battery.
And on the dying issue, I've personally readjusted carbs in the
spring because the bikes ran like s--- only to find that the gas went
south over the winter. Didn't used to be that way. Now I see where
they're going to put more ethanol in the gas, I'm sure that's not going
to make it better.
Maybe we'll go the way of California, where the gas is crap but the
latte is great.
There is an atmospheric vent hole on each of the carbs that shouldn't
be plugged up. That might cause a problem at idle.
John Prusnek
| Thanks for all the advise guys. I am looking at all of it. Just this one little niggle ( other than sometimes the starter doesn't engage and it takes a couple button pushes. I can live with that but not if its at every stop light!). |