| Author | Message | ||
     Mattmcc00 |
Had a pretty hard week end on the Uly. No time to describe it all now but I can start with Friday. As you can see I had a little top case mishap. While driving my wife to work the top case fly off when i hit 35Mph. Turns out I had not locked it  . As you can see the top case insert is marked up and the rear reflector is cracked. Anyone know if I can replace just those 2 parts? I got to run but tomorrow i will post Saturdays 10 hour 100mile trip through upstate new york!  | ||
| Mattmcc00 |
pics here.  | ||
| Mattmcc00 |
rear reflector  | ||
| Tootal |
Hell, those aren't scratches, they're character marks!! | ||
| Mark_weiss |
I've got one just like that! I'd locked the latch, but failed to check that the cam had engaged the base plate. I replaced the reflector but not the inset. About $25 from Bumpus HD. Included the two little screws. Mark SE AZ | ||
| Mattmcc00 |
Actually the damage was pretty minimal overall considering I had both of our laptops inside the topcase! DIdnčt see it fly off but I saw it in the mirror sliding down the street behind us, upright! The little feet under the box are also kind of melted, and my wifes laptop had the keyboard unclip. All we had to do was clip it back into place and all was good with the laptops. | ||
| Mattmcc00 |
On Saturday I drove out to the Messena ship-it shop in New York state from Montreal to pick up 4 tool tubes I had ordered (they don't ship to canada). On the way back I remember thinking to myself, hmmm... funny that my fuel light hasn't come on yet, I have been riding for some time now?? Then.. Buck, buck, cut, surge, buck, cut, cut, stalls... followed by..... thunder, lightning, and then rain! Luckily I had stalled in front a farm / tire place / inbred. In a bearly inteligible language the something like 12 children were shooed away and I was pointed to a gas can behind a rusty old flatbed. Now I am no gas expert but i did my best to try to determine if it was actually gas that was in that can, I gave in to the fact that my choices were slim and poured in about a cup. That gave me enough gas to make it to a farmers pump & conveinience store (about 1/2 mile). The guy told me that he had kerosene  and some of the cheap stuff 80 something he said. Ok, well I need to put in a little to get me to a real station so I'll just give it a little pump.  holy crap! I pull the trigger and the thing gushes out like a fire hose. In that little sqeeze I put in like 3 or 4 dollars worth! which at the price he was selling it is about 3/4 a tank! So, I get back on the road and the bike starts to buck, surge, cut, and then only the front cylinder fires...  oh great! what now! remember it is still pouring rain outside. then the engine light turns on, and then the bike stalls, and I cannot get it started again and I am nowhere... What to do... I take out my cell phone... dead. great. now what??? I try the bike again and it starts.  YES! ok lets go! I get back on the road, and about a 3 miles down the road, she starts to buck, and surge again, I loose all ability to accelerate. When I give some gas it cuts and dives. about a minute later it running on only the front cylinder again, engine light turns on, and about a minute after that it stalls and I can't get it to start again. This time I figure maybe the rain is getting to the plugs  I pull off the airbox and left side scoop. Notice that thier is a little water around the plug. So i pull out the plugs.... and... bone dry?? plugs were fine. I wipe the water, grease the plugs and put them back in. Bike starts again. But 3 miles down the road bucks, and surges, and runs only on the front cylinder, engine light turns on, and then dies again. So this pattern goes on for a long time, after stalling I could not start it for about 3 or four minutes, which after that time I could start it again and it would run fine for 3 miles or so, then start to buck, surge, and cut, then run on the front cylinder obnly, then the engine light would turn on, then it would stall. I eventually found a gas station, a gulf with super that had 10% ethenol in it... at least it was 91! So I managed to put in 2$. This made the bike sometimes jump back to 2 cylinders after running on 1 cylinder (engine light would go off when that happened), then jump back to 1 cyclinder, then 2, then 1 agian, then stall. Again after giving it a 2 or 4 minute break I could start it again and then drive another 5 miles, jumping from 1 to 2 cyclinders. I finally make it back to the border!! I kept riding on and off again until I reached huntington, where I found REAL GAS!! at ESSO! I poured in as much 91 as I could fit in the tank, keeping the bike level to fit in a little more. I managed to fit in 5$ CAD. Bike ran much better aftert that! I would run fine as long as I didn't decelerate. As long as I kept the throttle fixed I was ok, however if I tried to accelerate it would cut out, and if i let go the throttle it would stall, BUT! I could start it again. I rode like this for a while slowly accelerating from standstill to 90Mph, at which point it was getting a little dangerous on these little roads, and I would have to decellerate causing the engine to stall. rince & repeate. Then I reached Delson. Put in another 5$ CAD of 91 gas, and she rode just about like normal again!  By the time I made it home, I fit in another 3 $ gas, and she was back to her old self again. Oh... I think I have a back fuel light. (Message edited by mattmcc00 on May 03, 2010) | ||
| Froggy |
Are you related to Court? | ||
| Mattmcc00 |
Yeah... that's what I was thinking pouring in a cup of that farmers "gas". Unfortunately I can't tell diesel from unleaded, unless there's a label. | ||
| Mattmcc00 |
Do you think I could have done any serious damage? Anything to check you think? My little "trip" did take me 10hours! Left at noon got back at 10. | ||
| Mattmcc00 |
I do not think it was diesel fuel though, because thier was no smoke? | ||
| Satori |
I dought it was, I dont think it would have stayed running before grenading itself. diesel fuel actually does explode upon "ignition", which is where you get the rattle in a diesel, thus they have much heavier walled cylinders. It takes 2100-2200 degrees to get that to happen, which is not happening at 10:1 compression. My guess is it was just very bad fuel, and maybe had a very high content of alcohol an or water. but thats just a guess. I would probably just run some sea foam through the t body, and some in the fuell, and call it good. If she stays running fine, dont worry. | ||
| Two_buells |
I left the 2000 Buell Homecoming on my 99 S3 Thunderbolt in the pouring rain. The bike started running on just the front cylinder. It turned out to be a bad plug wire. Once I got home I washed the bike and soaked the rear plug wire. Sure enough it ran on one cylinder again. I change the bad wire and the bike has been running great since….. | ||
| Mattmcc00 |
Well, ever since running back on super it seems fine. Maybe it was just the gas. We will see next rainfall. On a side note I now have spare gas with me at all times. http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/142 838/562196.html?1273257244 | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Sounds like water to me. That ethanol crap loves to import water. Won't even run a lawnmower! I'm glad you were able to get it to run long enough to purge the demons out! |
