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fuel or carbys ????
Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 4:14 pm
by ZZRCHIKKY
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 ???
Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 5:03 pm
by Neilp
It could be the fuel tap filter being partially blocked
Neil
Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 5:25 pm
by Glen
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.
Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 5:36 pm
by ZZRCHIKKY
thank you
Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 6:00 pm
by mike-s
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!
Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 10:27 pm
by chameleon
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
Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 4:01 pm
by Johnnie5
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
Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 6:52 pm
by ZZRCHIKKY
thank u everybody
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 2:23 pm
by ZX10R King
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?........
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 2:34 pm
by ZZRCHIKKY
i do belive ur not aloude to buy spirits ( metho turps , kero ) or spray cans unless ur over 18 lol
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 3:48 pm
by mrmina
with my bike when it runs out of fuel and u switch it to res, it takes ages fire up.