Paging Lozzo....

.....or anyone else that can shine a light.

Just this morning as I'd taken my bike and wanted to take off, the bike
started to run very rough. It felt a bit like a couple of weeks ago when I
(nearly) ran out of fumes. It had been fine since.

Bike sounds rough and shudders more noticably than a normal V-twin. Bit like
a Harley on idle it is now, if it keep running at all. I have to keep it at
at least 1500 rpm to keep it going. I can't even outrun cars now.

Any ideas?

 

Check all the usual things first, but if its not an injected bike, sounds
like you may well have carb problems.

k

 

Spete wrote

Shit in the carbs.

 

Carb icing? Does it get better when it's warmed up?

What bike, anyway?

 

<TOG@toil>; <>; <>
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Carb icing would very much surprise me as it's about 20 degrees here. It's a
1998 VTR1000 Firestorm (in black)

 

Piss in the tank.

 

Done both, didn't work. It ran even more piss-shite...

 

Ah, right. Didn't know where you were

OK, carbed, not injected. You haven't had the fuel tank off? Kinked a
fuel line? If you nearly ran out of petrol, it might also have sucked
crap from the bottom of the tank into the fuel filter, so I'd check
this.

I really doubt it's a carb problem - in my experience carbs don't
suddenly decide not to work unless someone's fiddled with them. They
could have sucked in crap, but there should be filters to stop this.

 

<TOG@toil>; <>; <>
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Right, I suspect it may be a problem with a sparkplug. I've also noticed a
distinct petrol smell. Crap may be a factor, but I would have suspected
problems earlier. The lack of fuel happened a few weeks ago. Brought it to
the garage now. See what they say. Thanks for the pointers though.

 

If it's not firing properly on one pot, that would certainly explain a
petrol smell. Hm. Duff plug, maybe coil? Keep us posted.

 

<TOG@toil>; <>; <>
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Sparkplugs changed, bike's had a once-over, choke mended. Optimate still
doesn't like my battery though. Starts off on orange light, when I return
the next morning it's red. Bike starts though.

 

Sparkplugs, lube, less than an hour labour - what did that lot come to
then? €70ish?

 

A grand, surely.

 

Sparkplugs, lube, less than an hour labour - what did that lot come to
then? ?70ish?

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Twice that, approx...
:-(