360T issues...

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Fargo360 · #1 Unread post by **Fargo360** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:15 pm

Well, I thought that I was all ready for spring. Cleaned and rebuilt the carb over the winter, installed a coil power mod for my ignition coils that is supposed to add a bunch of power to them, and put on new tires and pipes. So with all that done, I thought I would take the bike for a little spin to make sure everything was on the up and up. So I fire it up for the first time since installing the coil mod and it actually sounds a little weaker than it used to but seems to be running smooth so I head out and up the road, get to the end of the block and put-put-konk. It dies. So I sit there and try to get it running again but for nothing. When I get it pushed back home (thankfully it was only a block) I get it running again but it only runs for a minute or so at about 1000rpm, and if I give it any gas it dies. So I leave it for an hour or so and come back to it, and it starts right back up normal. I let it run for a few minutes and it konks out again. and it seems like it only was running on one cylinder as one was hot and the other cold. I have spark, there seems to be fuel going to the carb on that side as there is gas in the fuel filter and I know there is air, so what gives? I had the compression checked out last fall and the guy said it was good.

I'm starting to get sick of this bike, I just want to go for a ride and not worry if I'm going to get there or back home.

Fargo360 · #2 Unread post by **Fargo360** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 5:03 pm

woot, got it figured out. One of the spark plug caps was shot. So I'm going to replace it and see what happens. I sure hope this is the end of it.

Johnj · #3 Unread post by **Johnj** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 5:58 pm

Fargo, there will always be something you need to do to the bike. These things fall into two categories. Things you want to do and things you have to do.

Fargo360 · #4 Unread post by **Fargo360** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:25 pm

Right now I WANT to be out riding. I live just off one of the main drags in fargo and when I am out working on my bike, every minute or so I hear another bike go by and all I can think about is getting out and enjoying the road. Back to the NEED, I got the new caps, and that bike fires on that side now, but I found through that, that there isn't any fuel getting to that side, so I'm guessing my float is set to low, so that's the next thing I need to do. Shouldn't be that bad of a fix though, just need the time to do it.

By the time I finally get out on the road my bike will be like new again!