Due to conditions beyond my control, (Rheumatoid Arthritis!!), My Darlin' has been setting for almost 2 years due to how bad my wrist's and ankle's were hurting!! Last Saturday though was the Day I said "ENOUGH"!!! took the cover off and fired her up!! The Ol' Girl actually fired up on the first few turns but wouldn't idle unless I gave her some throttle to keep her at about 2000rpm or so.. So I shut her down, got a screwdriver and brought the idle up to about 1800, ran her till she warmed up to about halfway on the guage and moved her near my shed so I could air the tires before taking her on the road.
On a side note the battery is VERY weak and I has to use a small Battery pack to jump her with every time I cranked her so I left the idle high to avoid stalling when I stopped. More on that in another post!!
When I left she was at about two bars from max temp and I rode her for about 5 miles or so.. While running she was wanting to stall so I was constantly working the throttle to heep her running. I rolled the throttle wide open a few times and she was definitely bogging out starving for fuel!! The temp remained 2-3 bars from max....
I have cranked her up both Sunday and today and both times she ran and idled fairly smooth at 1800rpm until the temp hit about 3/4 to max on the guage.. Then she wanted to start stalling out....
I'm gonna drain the rest of the gas and refill with new gas with Seafoam because I think that 2 year old gas is the main part of the problem here but my question here is will 1-2 year old gas cause the engine to Vapor lock??
I've experience vapor locking on this bike only once before when I was driving in some VERY hot conditions and this seems very similar!!
Any thoughts on this???
I'll post what happens with the fresh gas....
On a side note the battery is VERY weak and I has to use a small Battery pack to jump her with every time I cranked her so I left the idle high to avoid stalling when I stopped. More on that in another post!!
When I left she was at about two bars from max temp and I rode her for about 5 miles or so.. While running she was wanting to stall so I was constantly working the throttle to heep her running. I rolled the throttle wide open a few times and she was definitely bogging out starving for fuel!! The temp remained 2-3 bars from max....
I have cranked her up both Sunday and today and both times she ran and idled fairly smooth at 1800rpm until the temp hit about 3/4 to max on the guage.. Then she wanted to start stalling out....
I'm gonna drain the rest of the gas and refill with new gas with Seafoam because I think that 2 year old gas is the main part of the problem here but my question here is will 1-2 year old gas cause the engine to Vapor lock??
I've experience vapor locking on this bike only once before when I was driving in some VERY hot conditions and this seems very similar!!
Any thoughts on this???
I'll post what happens with the fresh gas....