I had a very odd experience this past weekend, that I hope someone around here might be able to explain for me.
I was at a trial (not that that matters) and it was raining considerably all day. Rode most of the day without any problems. Towards the end the bike suddenly stalled out at idle. When I went to restart it, it would only start on the choke, and would run definitely lean when the choke was off. I figured I sucked some dirt into the pilot and thought little more or it.
When I got home and took the carb off to clean it, I noticed an odd, almost pudding like material on the carb slide. It was fairly thick (about like pudding) and a light tan colour (uuummm, butterscotch ;) ). It was slightly tacky to the touch. When I blew the jets out with air, a "slug" of this same material shot out of the pilot. There was little evidence of the material in the float area.
Now, riding conditions were very wet, although almost no mud. I was running a 110 octane race fuel, called ProRace Fuels, with Motul 600 2T. The fuel is orange in colour.
I have never seem a residue like this before...any ideas? :think:
I was at a trial (not that that matters) and it was raining considerably all day. Rode most of the day without any problems. Towards the end the bike suddenly stalled out at idle. When I went to restart it, it would only start on the choke, and would run definitely lean when the choke was off. I figured I sucked some dirt into the pilot and thought little more or it.
When I got home and took the carb off to clean it, I noticed an odd, almost pudding like material on the carb slide. It was fairly thick (about like pudding) and a light tan colour (uuummm, butterscotch ;) ). It was slightly tacky to the touch. When I blew the jets out with air, a "slug" of this same material shot out of the pilot. There was little evidence of the material in the float area.
Now, riding conditions were very wet, although almost no mud. I was running a 110 octane race fuel, called ProRace Fuels, with Motul 600 2T. The fuel is orange in colour.
I have never seem a residue like this before...any ideas? :think: