| Author | Message | ||
     Johnglover |
Well. I have yet another problem. Last week, I rode for the first time in the rain. Heavy rain, for about 20 minutes. About twenty minutes after the rain quit, on my way home, my bike started to miss and back fire. It was having small backfires every couple of seconds. Out of frustration, and because I've been working on this bike almost daily in the past month with unrelated problems, I let it sit over the weekend. This morning I started her up for work and the problem persists. It idles very low and quiet for a bit then picks up, only to bog down again with more backfires. I'm lost. The only things I can think of would be water in the gas tank which I don't think is likely (My bike has sat in the pouring rain for hours with no problems. Or water got sucked through the carb (can that happen) Please give me some ideas, or your own experiences. After this one I'll Probably sell the old blast and save upfor a less infamous model of Buell's. Oh I can dream. | ||
| Ezblast |
Change gas - duh - you have water in your tank, empty float bowl as well. Might want to change your tank gasket if your going to ride in foul weather a lot. EZ (Message edited by ezblast on June 16, 2014) | ||
| Johnglover |
It just seems odd that it hasn't had problems before, after soaking in the rain all day. The only variable this time is that I was riding. I'm all for draining the tank and float bowl. But have you ever heard of pulling water through the air intake? | ||
| Ezblast |
Not mine - bit sitting vs riding may well pull water into the gas tank. It's a cheap try for a fix, but first check and see that your boot is on your carb right, that all is tight, and tighten down the hose clamps of the boot on both the carb and intake side. If that does not do it, I would suspect water in tank and carb, after that I would suspect intake boot, after that I would suspect other things. EZ | ||
| Gearheaderiko |
Water can cause electrical problems if any part of the ignition system is faulty. Water can (and will) get sucked into the air intake, but it goes through the engine, not the carb internals (no worries there). Check the "EZ" things, but please "do not take the carb apart to give it a good cleaning". Drain the gas if you wish. The Blast is probably the simplest bike you'll ever own. Suffering through what will certainly become simple problems will leave you well educated and better informed. If you can't fix the Blast, then all of your future bikes will be fixed by a shop. That's not meant to insult, they just are very simple machines (not that they can't cause a lot of hair pulling though!) | ||
| Johnglover |
What's the best/easiest way to drain the tank, from what I can see, it looks like I can either pull the fuell line from the carb (if I had baby hands), pull the petcock (if I want gasoline all over the place), or remove the tank and have to that last one anyways. Is there a trick to this? I imagine removing the line from the carb would be easiest, im just worried about trying to get it back on. | ||
| Ezblast |
Line to carb is easiest, but drop float bowl and empty that as well - careful of the screws though. EZ | ||
| Gearheaderiko |
fwiw: if you were going to pull the line off the petcock - that's fine. DONT pull the petcock. There are a few things on the Blast better left untouched unless absoloutely necessary, the petcock is one of them. | ||
| Johnglover |
Drained the fuel from the line on the petcock. Filled up with premium and 4oz of Seafoam. Now running better than ever. Thanks guys. | ||
| Gearheaderiko |
 If the bike has been sitting the rubber around the fuel filler can dry out. Regular fill ups should help!  |
