Patriot
Isabella is Lazarus
so, another saga of isabella's misbehaving is as follows:
riding home from round trip day of 275miles, humming away on the interstate with AVCC set to 75 and near my home, I see the bike laboring and losing speed on overpass hills that normally are no problem. As I approach my exit, I pull in clutch and engine kills...will not idle; won't run below 2000 rpms
So limp home last few miles and pull into garage. A little later, try to start it...takes like a bunch of throttle, it runs, but no idle and wants to kill below 2000 rpm.
Next day when cold, I raise tank...looking around, don't see anything out of ordinary like damage wiring or plugs, vac hose disconnected, etc. With trepidation, I pulled the plugs, and without a compression tester, sealed each hole with my hand/fingers, and hand was "puffed" off and away. Then I check that each plug was firing by connecting to the wire and grounding to valve cover, spinning the engine.
So now what? Gee, could the cam chain had jumped a tooth...have no idea why as it's the new CCT since the valves were checked. This engine has 70k miles with valve check at 55k and no adjustment needed.
I guess I really do need to do a proper compression check with gauge...
depressed in Nawlins'
Mike da Patriot
<appropriate pissed off smiley>
riding home from round trip day of 275miles, humming away on the interstate with AVCC set to 75 and near my home, I see the bike laboring and losing speed on overpass hills that normally are no problem. As I approach my exit, I pull in clutch and engine kills...will not idle; won't run below 2000 rpms
So limp home last few miles and pull into garage. A little later, try to start it...takes like a bunch of throttle, it runs, but no idle and wants to kill below 2000 rpm.
Next day when cold, I raise tank...looking around, don't see anything out of ordinary like damage wiring or plugs, vac hose disconnected, etc. With trepidation, I pulled the plugs, and without a compression tester, sealed each hole with my hand/fingers, and hand was "puffed" off and away. Then I check that each plug was firing by connecting to the wire and grounding to valve cover, spinning the engine.
So now what? Gee, could the cam chain had jumped a tooth...have no idea why as it's the new CCT since the valves were checked. This engine has 70k miles with valve check at 55k and no adjustment needed.
I guess I really do need to do a proper compression check with gauge...
depressed in Nawlins'
Mike da Patriot
<appropriate pissed off smiley>
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