dawgfan Posted May 25, 2005 Report Posted May 25, 2005 My buddy's shee started acting up and we're tryin to figure it out. He bought it off some guy on the side of the road pretty cheap. It has 34mm carbs and supposed to have a brand new 404 kit in it,but he doesn't know much else about it. A couple days after he bought it one cylinder just died during a ride and oil started coming out of the silencer (right side). He called me and I told him to check the plugs probably fowled. It was black and oily as hell. Put in new plug, ran great. I thought it was a bad crank seal. He came down for a ride the next weekend and we changed the oil and plugs for a ride the next day. This time the plugs still looked new, but we changed them anyway. About 3 hrs into the ride the next day, same thing, right side dies, more oil from silencer. This time when we pulled the plugs, right side didn't look that bad, just looked like it had been flooded, but the left was black as hell. The thing thats got me is that the oil in the cylinder can be sparatic like it is. It's fine for a few days, plugs stay clean, then all of a sudden they fowl out. If it were a crank seal or something leaking, wouldn't it leak all the time? I went over to take another peak at it yesterday before he comes back in town for the weekend and noticed one of the chokes on the carbs doesn't seem to work. And the place where stock carbs have a balance tube between them, his 34mm's have 2 extra drain tubes coming off the carbs(2 per carb). Is this normal for the 34mm's? Could there be a prob with the carbs causing all this crap? What about something electrical causing one cylinder to lose spark every now and then? One guy suggested it could be the reeds, anyone agree? Anyone with some ideas, we're open for suggestions?????????? Quote
1sreamin350 Posted May 25, 2005 Report Posted May 25, 2005 I would clean out those carbs. That would be a good start, then do a compression check too, this will give you an idea how new that top end realy is. Quote
dawgfan Posted May 26, 2005 Author Report Posted May 26, 2005 I would clean out those carbs. That would be a good start, then do a compression check too, this will give you an idea how new that top end realy is. 373622[/snapback] Yeah, that's gonna be done Friday or first thing Sat. Just want to get all my ducks in a row before then. I consider anything above 140lbs per bottle fairly new, That sound about right? Quote
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