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Overnight my E got sick.
It was running as good as ever when I parked it for the night, no sign of impending doom.
The next morning I went through the usual ritual for starting:
- turn key on...
- full choke...
- starter button...
- bike starts instantly everytime, without fail...
- put on helmet and gloves...
- push choke ½ way in...
- ride bike 2-3 blocks and push choke all the way in...
This has been the routine every ride, every day, rain or shine, mornings below freezing to summer cool mornings.
Last week it changed. Pushed the starter button and the bike cranked and cranked. It will now start but only with the choke in and with 20 seconds of cranking. It also has a slight loss of power and it won't decellerate (no engine braking).
It did have a small gass puddle under it a week prior to this happening. Removing the airbox cover revealed #4 dripping gas (no gasoil). Rapping on the floatbowl with the handle of a screwdriver stopped the drip.
I have since removed the carbs and found nothing blocking the floats (cleaned the needle and seats and screens anyway). Still no fuel leak but bike still dosen't want to start and dosen't run right.
Guess I will re-sync the carbs and do a compression check (I'll look at the plug color too).
Strange that this happened without warning overnight. I did check for a potato in the exhaust as the drug dealer neighbors are tired of me openly logging the license number of all their 5 minute visitors.
I was thinking the $60 gem is jealous of the Black Widow but the Gem is still ridden much more.
It was running as good as ever when I parked it for the night, no sign of impending doom.
The next morning I went through the usual ritual for starting:
- turn key on...
- full choke...
- starter button...
- bike starts instantly everytime, without fail...
- put on helmet and gloves...
- push choke ½ way in...
- ride bike 2-3 blocks and push choke all the way in...
This has been the routine every ride, every day, rain or shine, mornings below freezing to summer cool mornings.
Last week it changed. Pushed the starter button and the bike cranked and cranked. It will now start but only with the choke in and with 20 seconds of cranking. It also has a slight loss of power and it won't decellerate (no engine braking).
It did have a small gass puddle under it a week prior to this happening. Removing the airbox cover revealed #4 dripping gas (no gasoil). Rapping on the floatbowl with the handle of a screwdriver stopped the drip.
I have since removed the carbs and found nothing blocking the floats (cleaned the needle and seats and screens anyway). Still no fuel leak but bike still dosen't want to start and dosen't run right.
Guess I will re-sync the carbs and do a compression check (I'll look at the plug color too).
Strange that this happened without warning overnight. I did check for a potato in the exhaust as the drug dealer neighbors are tired of me openly logging the license number of all their 5 minute visitors.
I was thinking the $60 gem is jealous of the Black Widow but the Gem is still ridden much more.
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