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[QUOTE="AwfulSmokey, post: 1236432, member: 81026"]
I bought my bike about 1 1/2 weeks ago and have no idea what the guy before me did to it.

I took it out Saturday for my first all day ride. The bike ran nicely.  On the way back i ran it out of gas(yeah i know <sigh> )I put it on reserve and went on my merry way.

The next day i went to go put around and the bike wouldn't open up. If i cracked it past 1/4 throttle it sounded like it was running out of gas. I thought maybe some crap got in the carb.  Today i took it apart and cleaned the carb, took off the tank, emptied and cleaned it. I got it back together and would barely start up and then die. I took the plug off and it was oily. So i decided to replace the plug.

I looked up in my manual what plug it needed and went and bought one. I believe it was a NGK B9ES . I looked at the old one and it was a NGK B8ES .  I put the new plug in and noticed right from first gear it had more snap.  Now my question is....  does the 9 burn hotter than the 8? What would make the guy want an 8 in it?  Either way my bike runs alot better now, i just wondered what the reasoning was. Thanks in advance for some info.
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