Mariner Fan Posted July 3, 2012 #1 Posted July 3, 2012 We just returned from a vacation trip to Oregon for a week and a half. Jumped on the bike this morning, pulled the choke, and started it up. Trouble is that every time I pushed the choke button in the bike died. I filled the tank up just before we left so the gas is fresh. I figure that either the gas was bad from the gas station or my fuel pump is bad. Bad luck for me!
Marcarl Posted July 3, 2012 #2 Posted July 3, 2012 I'd say bad gas. If it runs with the choke it would be using more gas, not less, so that kind of rules out the fuel pump as being the culprit.
Mariner Fan Posted July 3, 2012 Author #3 Posted July 3, 2012 I'm sure you are right Carl. I put some seafoam in it to see if it helps.
Yammer Dan Posted July 3, 2012 #4 Posted July 3, 2012 The Sea-Foam might do it. Might check the filter.
steamer Posted July 4, 2012 #5 Posted July 4, 2012 sounds like you picked up some crap in the idle jets. Sea foam should do it. also a vacuum leak could cause this. check your vacuum lines and those rubber plugs under the carbs. check them for cracks.
dacheedah Posted July 4, 2012 #7 Posted July 4, 2012 I would dump the gas and add fresh from a big brand station, run it out of the carbs and see if that helps.
Mariner Fan Posted July 4, 2012 Author #8 Posted July 4, 2012 I'm just going to haul it to the shop. I don't hear the fuel pump clicking when I turn on the key. It barely starts now when choked and dies. Maybe I'll get lucky and it will be an item under warranty.
OB-1 Posted July 5, 2012 #9 Posted July 5, 2012 We just returned from a vacation trip to Oregon for a week and a half. Jumped on the bike this morning, pulled the choke, and started it up. Trouble is that every time I pushed the choke button in the bike died. I filled the tank up just before we left so the gas is fresh. I figure that either the gas was bad from the gas station or my fuel pump is bad. Bad luck for me! This sounds like a bad fuel pump to me. The fuel pumps can become intermittent. Sometimes tapping on the pump will cause it to work. You can use a Mr. Gasket model 42S pump to replace the stock pump. Do a search and you should come up with numerous threads on this subject and some will have good photos. It's not a difficult job to replace the fuel pump.
Mariner Fan Posted July 11, 2012 Author #10 Posted July 11, 2012 Just got a call from the service shop. It was a bad fuel pump. I'm sure glad it decided to go bad in the garage plus it is still under warranty!
Power Trippin Posted July 11, 2012 #11 Posted July 11, 2012 Did you park it next to a 1st Gen? NAW,....that would not be it. IT WOULD RUN FASTER THAN EVER IF YOU DID THAT!!! LOL GLAD TO HEAR IT WAS NOTHING SERIOUS.
Yammer Dan Posted July 11, 2012 #12 Posted July 11, 2012 Glad you got it fixed. It is my thinking (I do that sometimes) that a little Sea-Foam diet will help everything in the fuel system. Sea-Foam is not a harsh additive just keeps things good and clean and things wouldn't work as hard if they were clean.
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