gravismaximus
07-22-2016, 12:43 PM
hi, HELP im about to rip my hair out. thought i had her fixed this time (maybe i did) last time i found that my coil wire cap was open not allowing spark. found that after testing the cdi, stator, coil, pulse gen, and everything else that has to do with making spark. after testing everything was good i still replaced the coil wire cap plug, pulse gen and got a cdi form dratv. and she ran again. woot :Bounce . my buddy and i went out for a ride and she started do the same old thing after a hour of riding, losses power and eventally dies. wait 30 sec and itll start back up (sometimes) and you can go 1 min to 1 hr without a problem again (not this time). just at random times weather wet, dry, pavment, rocky terrain itll loose power and pushing on the throttle only makes it die quicker. got it home -towed
so again went for the previous fix and behold the new spark plug cap was open again ??? ok it was a cheap chineese one so i got a ngk for it just to have it not fix it this time. ok what else did i do sense it started running, o yeah i added half a can of sea foam to a full tank of gas(more than what it calls for) but it ran for over a hour befor it died. but just to be sure i removed it from the carb and tank and put in fresh gas, which got it so i would at least run for more than 3 seconds like it did after it died on me. so i turn the carb mixture screw to find hey i can make it run better, but still cant give it more then 1/4 throttle with out it dieing. so i was thinking spark to start but maybe it is fuel, but isnt sea foam spouse to get the gunk out not put it in. (cleaned carbs 2 years ago with maybe 10 hrs of riding time sense then) so find it hard to belive that it was gunk in the carb seeing how it was running perfect, died (spark plug cap) ran again fine and died again now. IDEAS ANYONE my source coil ohm is 280 and it produces 30acv at idle and 70acv at 1/4 throttle (befor it falls on its face) all the other spark parts have been swaped and cross checked with the like parts and produce the same voltages (not bad parts).
so is there something im missing or did the sea foam really gunk up the carb somehow and i should get a rebuild kit again.(gas tank is clean)
so again went for the previous fix and behold the new spark plug cap was open again ??? ok it was a cheap chineese one so i got a ngk for it just to have it not fix it this time. ok what else did i do sense it started running, o yeah i added half a can of sea foam to a full tank of gas(more than what it calls for) but it ran for over a hour befor it died. but just to be sure i removed it from the carb and tank and put in fresh gas, which got it so i would at least run for more than 3 seconds like it did after it died on me. so i turn the carb mixture screw to find hey i can make it run better, but still cant give it more then 1/4 throttle with out it dieing. so i was thinking spark to start but maybe it is fuel, but isnt sea foam spouse to get the gunk out not put it in. (cleaned carbs 2 years ago with maybe 10 hrs of riding time sense then) so find it hard to belive that it was gunk in the carb seeing how it was running perfect, died (spark plug cap) ran again fine and died again now. IDEAS ANYONE my source coil ohm is 280 and it produces 30acv at idle and 70acv at 1/4 throttle (befor it falls on its face) all the other spark parts have been swaped and cross checked with the like parts and produce the same voltages (not bad parts).
so is there something im missing or did the sea foam really gunk up the carb somehow and i should get a rebuild kit again.(gas tank is clean)