pnkrkr4lif
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Let's see how well I can confuse everyone...
*backstory* on a nice rainy morning I broke a throttle cable which left me on the side of the road for 4 hours waiting for a tow. To remove the old cable I took out the air intake box and all required components to do that. I replaced the cable and put everything back together. While waiting for the new cable to show up i decited to pull off the nose and check S8 and S7 plus a few other things. S7 was melted and gone... I contacted Brodie and got the info I needed to make his grounding harness and then did so, just not to the full extent he did. S8, S7, S6, and S4 are all now grounded to the battery which fixed some other issues I had. A week of riding and the bike is doing fantastic, then it rains.
The bike starts choking out with a power drop and pitch change but no popping or coughing out the tail pipe. It would do it all gears at all throttle positions. But if I gave it more juice the bike would run like it was missing a little but then run fine like it was trying to burn something out of it.
So I put in a new fuel pump and filter. When I pulled the old one apart the filter screen was full of debris. Put it back together and it ran fine, until I rode in the rain.
Pulled the tank off to look at the intake tubes and noticed #4 wasn't on all the way. Fixed that and replaced the spark plugs while I was there.
The bike runs fantastic. Rode in the rain for a hour the other day with no problems. Rode in the rain home yesterday and had a problem. This time it was only 5th gear and a fast roll on that made it run like it was being choked. If I rolled on slower at 65mph in 5th it was fine or if I was in a different gear and high rpm it was fine. But this happened after 20 minutes of riding in heavy rain on the hwy.
Safe to think I have a intake leak somewhere allowing water in or should I start trying to troubleshoot other things?
*backstory* on a nice rainy morning I broke a throttle cable which left me on the side of the road for 4 hours waiting for a tow. To remove the old cable I took out the air intake box and all required components to do that. I replaced the cable and put everything back together. While waiting for the new cable to show up i decited to pull off the nose and check S8 and S7 plus a few other things. S7 was melted and gone... I contacted Brodie and got the info I needed to make his grounding harness and then did so, just not to the full extent he did. S8, S7, S6, and S4 are all now grounded to the battery which fixed some other issues I had. A week of riding and the bike is doing fantastic, then it rains.
The bike starts choking out with a power drop and pitch change but no popping or coughing out the tail pipe. It would do it all gears at all throttle positions. But if I gave it more juice the bike would run like it was missing a little but then run fine like it was trying to burn something out of it.
So I put in a new fuel pump and filter. When I pulled the old one apart the filter screen was full of debris. Put it back together and it ran fine, until I rode in the rain.
Pulled the tank off to look at the intake tubes and noticed #4 wasn't on all the way. Fixed that and replaced the spark plugs while I was there.
The bike runs fantastic. Rode in the rain for a hour the other day with no problems. Rode in the rain home yesterday and had a problem. This time it was only 5th gear and a fast roll on that made it run like it was being choked. If I rolled on slower at 65mph in 5th it was fine or if I was in a different gear and high rpm it was fine. But this happened after 20 minutes of riding in heavy rain on the hwy.
Safe to think I have a intake leak somewhere allowing water in or should I start trying to troubleshoot other things?
