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I recently got my 1990 Wing out of storage and it wouldn't start. Fully cleaned the gas tank of all that
rusty debris, added new ethanol free gas plus a can of Sea Foam and no start. Found out that there was no gas being pumped, because the fuel pump was bad with no continuity. Replaced fuel pump successfully with my newly adopted Wing community. (That's an interesting story) And it started up. Reassembled all the fairing, started it up, warm it up, was going to test drive when one of the overflow tubes started leaking a lot fuel, so I garaged it with the intention of applying the float tapping process in the morning. But I also noticed at the same time that there was no real power response when giving it a good rev.
Thinking maybe the overnight sitting and sea foam additive might have resolved something, I started it up today. The plan was to tear things down to the carbs and give them a tap or two, but was told that maybe shutting off the fuel pump and running out the floats might cause some movement as well.
So, I unplugged the fuel pump and warmed up the bike to use up the fuel in the bowls. While warming it up, I still noticed that there was no real power in the acceleration, yet it did warm up and actually came to an idle, but no real power as if it was running on 3 cylinders or so. I checked the muffler tips and two of the four tips (the two outside ones on each side) were not putting out any real exhaust pressure. I'm thinking that I have more than just a stuck float and needle problem.
Long story shortened, I'm stuck in the garage not knowing what I should do next. Could check the plugs for spark or fouled condition.... Could go ahead and do the carb tapping thing. That's my story as of now.... What do you think?
rusty debris, added new ethanol free gas plus a can of Sea Foam and no start. Found out that there was no gas being pumped, because the fuel pump was bad with no continuity. Replaced fuel pump successfully with my newly adopted Wing community. (That's an interesting story) And it started up. Reassembled all the fairing, started it up, warm it up, was going to test drive when one of the overflow tubes started leaking a lot fuel, so I garaged it with the intention of applying the float tapping process in the morning. But I also noticed at the same time that there was no real power response when giving it a good rev.
Thinking maybe the overnight sitting and sea foam additive might have resolved something, I started it up today. The plan was to tear things down to the carbs and give them a tap or two, but was told that maybe shutting off the fuel pump and running out the floats might cause some movement as well.
So, I unplugged the fuel pump and warmed up the bike to use up the fuel in the bowls. While warming it up, I still noticed that there was no real power in the acceleration, yet it did warm up and actually came to an idle, but no real power as if it was running on 3 cylinders or so. I checked the muffler tips and two of the four tips (the two outside ones on each side) were not putting out any real exhaust pressure. I'm thinking that I have more than just a stuck float and needle problem.
Long story shortened, I'm stuck in the garage not knowing what I should do next. Could check the plugs for spark or fouled condition.... Could go ahead and do the carb tapping thing. That's my story as of now.... What do you think?