rebellion ind
Active Member
Let me start out by saying that my bike ran fine last year. Since then I have done the following:
-Drained tank and float bowls last winter
-Fixed, Derusted, painted tank
-Cleaned petcock screen and replaced rubber piece in petcock
-Added new fuel line with in line fuel filter for each line running to carb
-replaced throttle cable
My issues- Bike ran poorly the other day after adding new fuel line seemed to not be getting fuel to one cylinder and sputtering so I left it alone with the fuel valve open. Came back to it last night, I started it an it ran great but I didn't have time to ride it, so I started it tonight and it fired right up. I let it warm up for 5 minutes and then took it out on the street, as long as I left it as 1/4 choke it ran fine but if I removed the choke it sputtered and threatened to stall. Ran it for about 10 minutes then it started sputtering and running on one cylinder. I limped it home and had it run on both cylinders sporadically on the trip home. I looked at the fuel filters and saw the filter for the good running cylinder was nearly full of fuel while the sputtering cylinder had next to no fuel in its filter (I do know that when I left both filters had plenty of fuel in them). I removed the filter to make sure fuel would come out the hose when open and it does, so why doesn't the filter fill up? I have the filter's flow going in the correct direction and the hose doesn't appear to be kinked in anyway, so I am at a loss for what is wrong and what I should be doing.
-Drained tank and float bowls last winter
-Fixed, Derusted, painted tank
-Cleaned petcock screen and replaced rubber piece in petcock
-Added new fuel line with in line fuel filter for each line running to carb
-replaced throttle cable
My issues- Bike ran poorly the other day after adding new fuel line seemed to not be getting fuel to one cylinder and sputtering so I left it alone with the fuel valve open. Came back to it last night, I started it an it ran great but I didn't have time to ride it, so I started it tonight and it fired right up. I let it warm up for 5 minutes and then took it out on the street, as long as I left it as 1/4 choke it ran fine but if I removed the choke it sputtered and threatened to stall. Ran it for about 10 minutes then it started sputtering and running on one cylinder. I limped it home and had it run on both cylinders sporadically on the trip home. I looked at the fuel filters and saw the filter for the good running cylinder was nearly full of fuel while the sputtering cylinder had next to no fuel in its filter (I do know that when I left both filters had plenty of fuel in them). I removed the filter to make sure fuel would come out the hose when open and it does, so why doesn't the filter fill up? I have the filter's flow going in the correct direction and the hose doesn't appear to be kinked in anyway, so I am at a loss for what is wrong and what I should be doing.