My son and I were doing a little light trail riding today and about a half hour in, he slowed down approaching a mud hole and the bike died. I teased him about stalling it, but he said it died on it's own. "Did you turn the gas back on when you picked your bike up a few minutes ago?" He always turns it off when he drops it over, which he'd done a few minutes earlier. "Yep." I restart the bike and it dies as soon as I let of the throttle. I restart it again and notice the throttle response is REALLY sluggish. Hmm, the plug must be going or something. I turn the idle screw up about a half turn so it will idle and tell him we'll have to try to limp it on in for a closer look. As we get going down the trail again, I notice there's NO smoke and he's really laboring to keep it running. Fearing seizure, I have him kill it and pull over.
Back at camp and after the bike cools off I check the plug and compression, kick it over by hand to see if all feels right. The plug is tan, but may be carbon fouled so I put in a new one and try it... Nothing. About every fiftyith kick it will do one of those chuggy "foom" back fires and that's it. I take the new plug back out to see if she's flooded. It's dry, too dry, in fact, it doesn't seem to be getting ANY fuel. There's fuel in the carburetor, the jetts are clear, and pinky finger check tells me the reeds are still in place. Hand over the tail pipe tells me air is moving, but I can't detect any fuel in the cylinder. I hold my hand over the intake side of the carburetor to see if there's suction and it gets covered with fuel.
Any ideas what might cause this problem????
BTW - I even tried a dose of ether down the muzzle with nary a drop reaching the plug it seems.
Back at camp and after the bike cools off I check the plug and compression, kick it over by hand to see if all feels right. The plug is tan, but may be carbon fouled so I put in a new one and try it... Nothing. About every fiftyith kick it will do one of those chuggy "foom" back fires and that's it. I take the new plug back out to see if she's flooded. It's dry, too dry, in fact, it doesn't seem to be getting ANY fuel. There's fuel in the carburetor, the jetts are clear, and pinky finger check tells me the reeds are still in place. Hand over the tail pipe tells me air is moving, but I can't detect any fuel in the cylinder. I hold my hand over the intake side of the carburetor to see if there's suction and it gets covered with fuel.
Any ideas what might cause this problem????
BTW - I even tried a dose of ether down the muzzle with nary a drop reaching the plug it seems.
