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Cyclonemick
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 09:34 am: | 
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Over the last week my 00 M2 has developed a serious cough. It happens at various speeds and various gears hot or cold. I have 38k miles with X1 cams with a Dyno Jet Jet kit K&N filter. Yesterday I installed new plugs and checked for manifold leaks to no avail. It seems to be coughing through my carb which my first thought was it was to rich and my plugs were sooty black but I have made no adjustments to it on over 20K. Could this be a timing issue? Any suggestions would be appreciated. |
Cyclonemick
| | Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 11:43 am: |
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Blake, Feel free to remove this post since I have used the search function and found what I have needed. Thanks! |
Blake
| | Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 02:59 pm: |
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Cool! What did you find? |
Jayvee
| | Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 03:00 pm: |
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Hey, what was it?
I have a 2000 M2, just wondering... |
Cyclonemick
| | Posted on Friday, August 25, 2006 - 09:36 am: |
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The problem was a intake manifold leak. I tried to spray wd 40 but no results. Then I tried spraying starter fluid into my manifold and sure enough the damn thing nearly died. I 'm picking up new seals today and should be up and running by later this evening. |
Jayvee
| | Posted on Friday, August 25, 2006 - 12:07 pm: |
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Yeah, I just did mine about 3 months ago, I bought the bike with only 3000 miles on it about six months ago.
Not too hard, after cutting down the allen wrench.
Also, don't do what I did when you re-install the choke cable to the frame bracket! I over-tightened the plastic nut, it breaks REAL easy ! ($12 for a new one, and one more thing to fix.) |
Cyclonemick
| | Posted on Friday, August 25, 2006 - 02:01 pm: |
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What do you mean by cutting down your allen wrench? |
Jayvee
| | Posted on Friday, August 25, 2006 - 05:31 pm: |
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I bought a Yost Products "bent" allen wrench supposedly specifically designed to get to the intake manifold. I just couldn't get the hang of it and wound up having better luck using one that I'd cut off some of the short end, in conjunction with using the cut-off piece turned with an open-end wrench. And one very long T-handle allen wrench for one of the bolts, I think it was the bottom front. One of those deals where if you have the right tool it's fairly straightforward, but if you don't, it's a real bear to do. I guess I still don't have the right tool, since i used at least 3 different tools for 4 bolts.
Maybe I'll just swap them out for regular bolt heads next time I have to take them out. Why are they allens anyway? Wouldn't a regular bolt work there?
(Message edited by jayvee on August 25, 2006) |
Cyclonemick
| | Posted on Saturday, August 26, 2006 - 07:30 am: |
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Last night I discovered exactly what you were talking about. The thing that got me was the stupid metal clamp used to crimp the fuel line. I picked up new ones from the dealer but they were allready crimped tight and for the life of me I could not get them un-done. I ended up using a regular hoseclamp that adjusts with a screw. |
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