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General => Technical | How To => Topic started by: bbwlover on November 08, 2015, 11:00:17 AM
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Hi everyone
This has happened twice now. Once last week and once again a few days ago. I'll be riding and all of a sudden the engine starts to spit and cough and lose power. I tried to push my way through it which only got me a few meters more. Once I gave up and turned off the bike, it was extremely hot and smelling of burn. I waited a while and tried again which at least enabled me to get home. That was the first time. I turned on the bike every now and then to see if it was still messed up. Nothing so I went riding, but again, it happened. The only thing that was common about those days was that it was in heavy rainfall. Any ideas?
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Lotsa ideas. Some apply to air cooled, some to liquid cooled, some to 4 cycle.......I think you have the idea by now!
Karl
PS: May be carburetor ice regardless.
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all of a sudden the engine starts to spit and cough and lose power
Always start with the O-rings between the intake manifold and the head (there's 2 of them). If they're old, more than 2 years, say, they go flat and leak air and your motor will stumble and cough, and also won't move off idle. New O-rings, about 25 cents each from the O-ring store or about $3 each from Kymco.