Hello guys listen to this story....
My bike has been having poor gas mileage and has been running just crappy lately. When taking off from first it tends to just die on me like it's running out of gas. Recently I was riding about in 3rd gear and I started losing power to the point where I had to shift down to 1st gear just to keep the bike moving. I told my friend about this and he told me to go over the house so he can check and clean the carbs out.
I go over to his house and we take off the gas tank.........We opened the airbox to check the filter and a crapload of gas starts pouring out of the airbox. My eyes popped out of my head and so did my friends lol. My filter was basically soaked in gas and there was a little puddle in the airbox. We soaked up the fuel and let the filter dry.......once I got the bike started again it felt and ran like a totally differen't bike. No more sputtering, no more lag fromt he throttle and the engine just ran waaay wayy better. My friend believes I left the petcock set on "Prime" and it flooded the carbs to the point that the fuel leak into the airbox. He thinks that's why the bike was running so crappy because it was running extremely rich.
Could leaving it on "Prime" or riding it in the "Prime" position do something like this? I sure hope it was my dumb ass mistake and the issue is corrected. The bike sure does run sweet right now. Any comments guys? Your opinions would really help me out.
Topic: Fuel pool in airbox.... (Read 4664 times)