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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: spanner on March 18, 2015, 06:56:52 PM

Title: Help! On the road and ......
Post by: spanner on March 18, 2015, 06:56:52 PM: On the road to the Nat rally.

An hour away from Townsville and the old girl seems to have lost a heap of power.

She has started backfirering when decelerating.

Has lost a lot of Oomph. Takes a while to get up to speed

Is it only running on reduced cycls???

What does this mean for my rally?
Title: Re: Help! On the road and ......
Post by: Brock on March 18, 2015, 07:02:52 PM: 1100 or 1300???

Try cracking the fuel cap, and see if the problem goes away.

Have you replaced the air filter recently?? Did you get a tank of fuel just before the problem started?? If so, try adding a cup of metho (or several glugs ), may be water in the fuel. Metho will allow the water to mix with the fuel and be burnt.. (called water injection)
Title: Re: Help! On the road and ......
Post by: Sicman on March 18, 2015, 07:14:53 PM: What Brock said - Sounds like crook fuel. Stay safe
Title: Re: Help! On the road and ......
Post by: spanner on March 18, 2015, 07:41:30 PM: Thanks everyone.

Thanks for the phone call ST2UP

1 & 1/2 cups metho administerd

Will report next
Stop.
Title: Re: Help! On the road and ......
Post by: Pezzz on March 18, 2015, 07:48:35 PM: You didn't fill up with Diesel did you ????? :fp
Same symptoms and has been known to happen before ....... :Stirpot
:rofl :rofl :rofl :crackup :crackup :crackup
Title: Re: Help! On the road and ......
Post by: Sicman on March 18, 2015, 07:57:05 PM: Quote from: Pezzz on March 18, 2015, 07:48:35 PM
You didn't fill up with Diesel did you ????? :fp
Same symptoms and has been known to happen before ....... :Stirpot
:rofl :rofl :rofl :crackup :crackup :crackup
Spanner didn't mention a smoke trail that made the servo disappear :grin :grin
Title: Re: Help! On the road and ......
Post by: Biggles on March 18, 2015, 08:35:47 PM: Quote from: Pezzz on March 18, 2015, 07:48:35 PM
You didn't fill up with Diesel did you ????? :fp
Same symptoms and has been known to happen before ....... :Stirpot

Strewth! When did that happen? :eek
Title: Re: Help! On the road and ......
Post by: Shiney on March 18, 2015, 08:50:10 PM: Good luck spanner, I hope the metho does the trick
Title: Re: Help! On the road and ......
Post by: Wild Rose on March 18, 2015, 10:34:32 PM: I had the same problem with my Kawasaki Gtr1000 I had a few years ago
I got crook fuel from a servo which closed down shortly afterwoods
The bike run like shit then would stop, I would leave it for 5 minutes and would start again. So off I would go only to stop again down the road, I ended up coming home and draining the tank and putting new fuel in and no more problem

But I have been told the metho works, Hope to see you in Toowoomba on Friday :hatwave
Title: Re: Help! On the road and ......
Post by: Biggles on March 19, 2015, 12:38:24 AM: Quote from: Wild Rose on March 18, 2015, 10:34:32 PM
But I have been told the metho works, Hope to see you in Toowoomba on Friday :hatwave

It only works if the problem is water in the fuel. If it's contaminated in some other way (kerosene has been known to creep in) then your drain and fill is the way to go. Hard to do on some bikes, especially when you're away from home.
Title: Re: Help! On the road and ......
Post by: Brock on March 19, 2015, 08:12:45 AM: If its kero contamination, the metho at least will help it to burn, unless its more kero that 91 octane.
Title: Re: Help! On the road and ......
Post by: Shiney on March 19, 2015, 05:44:57 PM: How's it going spanner, did the metho work?

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Title: Re: Help! On the road and ......
Post by: Old Steve on March 22, 2015, 07:27:00 AM: Actually iso-propyl alcohol is better than meths for absorbing and dispersing water in a fuel tank. A lot of servos used to carry small bottles of it for that purpose. But in an emergency, and in the absence of a source of iso-propyl alcohol, meths will work.