Post by payneib on Mar 18, 2013 17:01:33 GMT -5
It may sound daft, but let me set the scene:
At my last service (or maybe the one before) the guys did a carb clean for me, and told me it was full of water. So I was careful with the cleaning from then on.
Today, I nipped into to town for some food shopping, with the intention of carrying on into the big city. About 250 yards from my house, it died at idle, "bloomin valves again" I thought, as I started it again, and carried on into the super market. When I got there, it died again, and would only give me a few sputters trying to start on the kicker (turned over on the button, but no fire). So, panicking about getting to work tomorrow, I pushed it around the block to the motorcycle garage.
When I got there, there was a queue of five scoots, all "won't start", "just died", "I pushed it here" and the guys said they most likely wouldn't get around to mine today, so I asked them if I could go get my tools and try myself in their car park, which they were happy with.
I pulled a few plastics, to get a good view of the engine, pinched the fuel line just before the filter, drained the carb until the filter was empty, returned everything back to normal, then started it. Vroom vroom. First time on the button. It idled nice and strong, until it bogged and died again. So I opened the air intake up and cleaned it out with a rag. Water, mud, vermin, Bigfoot, it was all in there.
The problem: rain. Not massively heavy, just fairly constant. And where the air intake is about 6 inches from the rear wheel, it sucks up a lot!
I was just wondering if anyone has ever fitted a snorkel like device (think submarines, British Army Landrovers, etc) to move the suction away from the ground and the wheel? I was thinking anywhere high, and preferably tucked away under some plastic somewhere.
Any all ideas welcome,
Ian
At my last service (or maybe the one before) the guys did a carb clean for me, and told me it was full of water. So I was careful with the cleaning from then on.
Today, I nipped into to town for some food shopping, with the intention of carrying on into the big city. About 250 yards from my house, it died at idle, "bloomin valves again" I thought, as I started it again, and carried on into the super market. When I got there, it died again, and would only give me a few sputters trying to start on the kicker (turned over on the button, but no fire). So, panicking about getting to work tomorrow, I pushed it around the block to the motorcycle garage.
When I got there, there was a queue of five scoots, all "won't start", "just died", "I pushed it here" and the guys said they most likely wouldn't get around to mine today, so I asked them if I could go get my tools and try myself in their car park, which they were happy with.
I pulled a few plastics, to get a good view of the engine, pinched the fuel line just before the filter, drained the carb until the filter was empty, returned everything back to normal, then started it. Vroom vroom. First time on the button. It idled nice and strong, until it bogged and died again. So I opened the air intake up and cleaned it out with a rag. Water, mud, vermin, Bigfoot, it was all in there.
The problem: rain. Not massively heavy, just fairly constant. And where the air intake is about 6 inches from the rear wheel, it sucks up a lot!
I was just wondering if anyone has ever fitted a snorkel like device (think submarines, British Army Landrovers, etc) to move the suction away from the ground and the wheel? I was thinking anywhere high, and preferably tucked away under some plastic somewhere.
Any all ideas welcome,
Ian
tuning the carb just right for that setup. probably you'll be running it leaner. someone else might have a diff opinion on your situation, but this should sufice.