fuel or carbys ????

ZZRCHIKKY · Post by **ZZRCHIKKY** » Fri May 19, 2006 4:14 pm

when i put petrol in my bike after being on reserve it spluters for the next 20's and then runs fine , whats wrong with my bike ???

Neilp · Post by **Neilp** » Fri May 19, 2006 5:03 pm

It could be the fuel tap filter being partially blocked

Neil

Glen · Post by **Glen** » Fri May 19, 2006 5:25 pm

Sounds like you may have some crap in the bottom of your tank or some water. The reserve tap just drains the last inch or so of fuel so theres likely some gunk in there.

You should take it off and clean it out or depending on your set up take the fuel tap off and completely drain and flush the tank a couple of times and clean the filter. While your at it whack an in line filter in as well ie little filter in between the fuel tap and the carb's.

Good luck with it.

ZZRCHIKKY · Post by **ZZRCHIKKY** » Fri May 19, 2006 5:36 pm

thank you

mike-s · Post by **mike-s** » Fri May 19, 2006 6:00 pm

I agree with glen on this one. On my old car i used to start getting it coughing and spluttering rather badly when i got to about 5 litres left as there was that much shit in it. took ages to get rid a fair bit of it all (putting the wynns cleaner stuff in) and running it down till it started popping and farting before replacing it. Mind you i never did get rid of it all, that would have required a fuel tank drain, and fark that while living in a set of units.

Another thing to think of as a reason for flushing it out is the fact there's water in there means there's more opportunity for your tank to rust!

chameleon · Post by **chameleon** » Fri May 19, 2006 10:27 pm

you definately need an inline filter. A lot easier to do than the job of pulling the carbs apart and cleaning crap out of the jets

Johnnie5 · Post by **Johnnie5** » Sat May 20, 2006 4:01 pm

get yourself 250 ml of metho and next time you are going to fill the tank drop the metho on 1st

metho accepts water into its molecular structure , metho then mixes with petrol and is burnt off

ZZRCHIKKY · Post by **ZZRCHIKKY** » Sat May 20, 2006 6:52 pm

thank u everybody

ZX10R King · Post by **ZX10R King** » Sat May 27, 2006 2:23 pm

Johnnie5 wrote:get yourself 250 ml of metho and next time you are going to fill the tank drop the metho on 1st

metho accepts water into its molecular structure , metho then mixes with petrol and is burnt off

Don't ya need a special permission slip to buy metho in Townsville?........

ZZRCHIKKY · Post by **ZZRCHIKKY** » Sat May 27, 2006 2:34 pm

i do belive ur not aloude to buy spirits ( metho turps , kero ) or spray cans unless ur over 18 lol

mrmina · Post by **mrmina** » Sat May 27, 2006 3:48 pm

with my bike when it runs out of fuel and u switch it to res, it takes ages fire up.