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Posted: **Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:52 am**

the petcock is vacuum operated so how would I test it? just swithc it to open and suck on it???

Posted: **Tue Jul 12, 2005 7:04 am**

thats paints a hilarious mental picture.

Posted: **Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:58 am**

i figured it might

Posted: **Tue Jul 12, 2005 8:27 pm**

It's possible that your bike is firing 180 degrees out of time. I had an old BMW Car that ran great for a few weeks then STOPPED alltogether. Turns out the distributor was out 180 deg. The car shouldn't have run like this, but it did anyway. (Damn physics!)

Make sure you have the proper wires going to each coil. They SHOULD be different colors for the various coils. Your wiring diagram shows gray and orange. The DIagram Doesn't show which coil fires which cylinder tho, so it 's just a guess...

Posted: **Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:02 pm**

that could be a reason but it was runnig just fine before so unfortunately I dont think thats the culprit

im going to see if i can find new points for it, it looks as if the one isnt making contact...we'll see

Posted: **Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:23 am**

I got it to start & run!!!

It must have been a vacuum problem I replaced the lines from the petcock to the carbs and away it went, I feel like an idiot not riding for so long a dn going crazy over stupid fuel lines.

oh well time to ride.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2005 3:22 am**

rapidblue wrote:I got it to start & run!!!

It must have been a vacuum problem I replaced the lines from the petcock to the carbs and away it went, I feel like an idiot not riding for so long a dn going crazy over stupid fuel lines.

oh well time to ride.

Congrats my man!!!! If you ever make it down to Regina, we should go fer a rip!!

I may be in Saskatoon on the 20th actually...

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:02 am**

well if I ever getting it runnig properly, I'll let you know

see:
http://totalmotorcycle.com/BBS/viewtopic.php?t=4835

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edit: not "gas line" anymore, !!!!start!!!!