[justwingnit]

Today I was ridding to work with the radio blasting in my headset, the engine seemed like I had no power, I twisted harder on the throttle and with radio in my ears the engine seemed like it was starving for fuel. (I shut off the fuel every night but I was about 20 min. into my 25 min ride to work so I knew the fuel was turned on.) I hit the mute button to lower radio and pulled in the clutch and the engine was not running. I down shifted a few gears and let the clutch out and the engine did not restart, I dropped it to neutral and coasted to a safe place to stop, turned off fuel and back on, tried to start it and engine cranked but no start, I reached down and touched the fuel pump as I held the starter button and could feel the pump clicking. I had power to dash, fan, seemingly everything. opened the fuse box and checked the ignition fuse and it looked good, I swapped it with the fan fuse and tried to start the bike again, bike started but it started like it had just ran out of fuel. (slow to start, acted like it wanted to but didn’t at first but then it did sounding like two or three cyl. then it idled up like it was running on all four.) I let it idle for a short time as I put my helmet on, zipped up my coat, and put my gloves on, then rode it to work (about 7 min. ride) just fine. Shut it off and it restarted fine, shut it off, I let it sit for 30 min. restarted it and drove it about 5 min. and all seems fine. The fan works, I checked all the fuses with a meter and they are all good.
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WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENED, I have owed this wing for a year and have never had any problems like this before, I have never replaced the fuel filter so I’ll get one from napa today and replace it. But even though I’m a mechanic I’m baffled.
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[justwingnit]

my fuel pump does click all the time, is it going bad?

Fuel cap was not opened during the stop but I'll look into the vent on it.

Color well look at my aveator, song on radio AC/DC Highway to Hell.:ROFL:

 

[justwingnit]

I have checked all fuses and they are good, cleaned the contacts with batery turminal cleaner too.

Swapping the fuse did not fix problem, when she refired she poped like fuel was getting to one carb, then two, then she fired on three and then cleared up and ran on all four. (like float boles had ran out of fuel)

 

[justwingnit]

update....I just replaced fuel filter, she had a milky wite plastic in-line filter on her the filter seems on the heavy side and is dark like it may have ben restrickting flow, I pulled all the fuel lines off from "T" back and can see light threw them (no blockadge)...

When I stalled out the Fuel Pump was clicking when I tryed to start her!!! When I replaced the fuel filter the pump clicked the say way it did when I was on the side of road untill it got fuel to it, now it has a pulsatting fealing and a light clicking sound but nothing like it did when I stalled out and like it did when I changed the fuel filter.

So it may have been just a dirty filter but I think I'll grab that napa fuel pump and toss it into the trunk just incase it is going out.

I just ran her 20 miles at about 70 mph and had no truble.

I may run a fuel PSI test with my tester and a flow test like Bellboy40 posted.

Thanks for your help. I'll let you all know if anything changes and or if it happenes again.