During the ride home GT 500

gyrocfi · Post by **gyrocfi** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 6:59 pm

Left work for a nice ride home this evening, Nice crisp temps the suzie loves it, got a half mile down the road and it started to quit!! I swapped to reserve even though I only had 60 miles on the tank. It didnt help, Sooo swapped to Prime, the engine picked up and ran great!! Phewww things were okay basically BUT now Im thinking a bad petcock, Bummer. Then it dawned on me, I had been doing some fiddleing on stuff around the carbs including the vacume line. Pulled over and Woopppieee found the vacume line disconnected!! Duuuuu!

Rode the final 40 miles home totally enjoying the most beutiful sunset! Its pretty much dark when I get home of late. 5:30 is dark!

AND I finally met a guy in my area that does the 2 stroke thing. and he has a T 500! Dofin

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:42 am

I hate to admit it but I had just the opposite happen to me on my GS1000. The bike was in the street and I was getting ready to pull the tank to do some work. I cut the zip tie holding the line on the tank and pulled the line. Then I got distracted and was away from the bike for about an hour. When I got back, I decided to pull the bike up to the garage -- closer to the tools. I hopped on and fired it up, made a U turn and pulled in the drive. As soon as I stopped I was hit with the strong smell of fuel. Gasoline was pouring out of the petcock all over everything. It's amazing how much fuel passes through these things. Yes, I neglected to pull off the vacuum line. -------------------

jkevinlilly · Post by **jkevinlilly** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:57 am

Don't you love it when what appears to be a really big problem turns out to actually be just a little stupidity and cn be fixed in seconds. I once put the little insulating washers on the points on the wrong side of the connection wires on all three points, and then spent two hours trying to figure out why there was no spark. Duh..

Kevin

gyrocfi · Post by **gyrocfi** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:24 am

There is no better teacher than experiance!! BUTTTTTT!!!

cyclebuster · Post by **cyclebuster** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:06 am

you have no idea how many bikes i have bought with the points wires shorted out due to inproper assembly!! Lost count!! i expect to see 3 more this coming season for certain.

Tom Brown · Post by **Tom Brown** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:29 am

Point wires shorted out? Improper assembly?

I just replaced points

rngdng · Post by **rngdng** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:33 am

On my first Buffalo, during one of the early rides, the lights went out. ALl of the electrics went out, so I knew it blew the fuse. Sure enough, but did I have a fuse......of course not. I turned the lights off and connected the fuse clips to each other, and since I didn't see any smoke, I rode it home.

The fuse blew sometimes time I turned on the low beam, but the high beam was fine. I finally found that a screw had fallen onto the connector for the headlight bulb (which was missing it's rubber cover), and was laying on the contacts for the low beam. It didn't make good contact all the time, so the problem was intermittent. I had a picture of it, but it got lost in one of my hard-drive crashes, I guess. Yes, I insulated the contacts after that!

On Blueboy, something similar happened. I was about a mile from the house on its maiden voyage, and lost power. The fuse appeared to be good, so I pushed it home. Upon arriving at home I discovered that the fuse was in fact, bad, AND the original, spare fuse holder had a good fuse in it! DOH!

Lane

markj · Post by **markj** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:58 pm

rngdng wrote:Upon arriving at home I discovered that the fuse was in fact, bad, AND the original, spare fuse holder had a good fuse in it! DOH!

Lane

Aint that always the way.......

Gordon · Post by **Gordon** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:02 am

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Suzukidave · Post by **Suzukidave** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:38 am

Gordon wrote:At MY age, I've given up carrying a condom in my wallet, in favour of a spare fuse.....

But Gordon , isnt useing a fuse for a condom a little painfull

Post by **Suzsmokeyallan** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:07 pm

Well now, things have taken a turn for the worse in the conversation, so a fuse huh, i hope its a cylindrical one and not a blade type as those look like they could hurt more......

GT Tim · Post by **GT Tim** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:26 pm

Suzsmokeyallan wrote:Well now, things have taken a turn for the worse in the conversation, so a fuse huh, i hope its a cylindrical one and not a blade type as those look like they could hurt more......

Maybe he meant cannon fuse...

Suzukidave · Post by **Suzukidave** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:32 pm

GT Tim wrote:
Suzsmokeyallan wrote:Well now, things have taken a turn for the worse in the conversation, so a fuse huh, i hope its a cylindrical one and not a blade type as those look like they could hurt more......
Maybe he meant cannon fuse...

I heard it said that Gordon had a short fuse but i never knew thats what they ment

gyrocfi · Post by **gyrocfi** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:25 pm

Im so confused??!!!

During the ride home GT 500

During the ride home GT 500

teacher

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