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Littletonblast
| | Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 - 12:11 pm: | 
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Ok. So, I just got a 2001 Blast with 6,300 miles on it. It's my first bike. I know the 01s were prone to trouble but I thought this one was running fine until...
My first ever trip on the highway. Yeah! 65 degrees in Colorado, all the bikers are out and the ride went great. It was when I got off the freeway and idled at a stoplight that the RPMs dropped, slower and slower, until the engine thumped pathetically a couple last times and just died. It wouldn't restart right away so I embarrassingly had to push it off the road (in front of two Ninja riders I had earlier burned in traffic and who now sat smirking smugly). I then tried for five minutes to get the engine to stay on again. It would turn over, thump a few times and die. Repeat.
Finally it came back to life and I started home only to have it die a few miles down the road. Five minutes later, I coaxed it back to life and discovered that if I kept the throttle rolled on a little at a stop (and kept the RPMs up) it wouldn't die.
So, my first bike, I'm waiting for the service manual to be FedEx'd and I'm not real mechanically inclined. But if I had to venture a guess, I'd say fuel delivery problem, idle speed's too slow, or something more serious that will cost me a thousand bucks to fix at the HD dealership and convince me to buy Japanese next time.
Any helpful advice appreciated. } |
Littletonblast
| | Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 - 12:54 pm: |
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I also just remembered that I at first thought I ran out of gas. So I popped the fuel cap to look inside (I had plenty of gas tho) and sometime after that, it started again. Maybe vacuum in the fuel lines? Or Carburetor problem? |
Buell_bert
| | Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 - 02:46 pm: |
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I had somewhat the same type of problem but it was ignition. Also check the coil connection and plug wire. It was a loose coil wire (power to the coil)that would vibrate with the engine and drove me crazy for a month or so. |
Sarodude
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 10:26 am: |
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If you can, next time you feel it dying, immediately pop the gas cap. If it recovers, you've got a pinched tank breather OR if you have a California blast, the charcoal can (prone to stupidity on the Blast) may be bad. It's pretty easy to undo and has been the bane of MANY Cali Blasts.
-Saro |
Sparky
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 02:06 pm: |
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Cali Blasts.
That would be a good name for a rock group -- The Cali Blasters. |
Gbaz
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 08:07 am: |
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Try asking in the thumper section. 1st thing to check is the carb boot. they fail after a few years (my 04 went boot cracked in 08)... then check plugs (my msf instructur had his blast die due to a plug). |
Wrightd223
| | Posted on Friday, September 30, 2016 - 01:11 pm: |
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Any luck fixing this? Mine is doing the same thing. It idles slower and slower at lights and I have to save it by revving the bike!
Seeing as this is an old thread, if anyone has answer, please email me at wrightd223@hotmail.com |
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