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It’s a MYSTERY!
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August 12, 2009 at 3:41 pm #3285CandiceParticipant
In about May I posted about my bike dieing for no reason while I was riding it and then later that day it worked fine for a long time so I chalked it up to operator error, BUT, now my bike has been dieing and dieing and dieing over and over again. This happens when I’m at about 40 or 50 miles an hour and I’m starting to slow down for a stop sign or light or backed up traffic or whatever. So, I’m afraid of getting run over or being in a spot that I can’t pull over safely. I have taken the bike in 3 times now, the first time they just looked at it, made some idle adjustment and some other quick things, they didn’t even pull it in the shop, they did test ride it though, found nothing. I took it back a second time because it was still dieing and I didn’t like it so this time they kept the bike for 3 days, test rode it, it didn’t die, made some more adjustments.
I take the bike out on a ride with my peeps and it keeps dieing. So someone suggested I turn the gas from on to reserve and run it on reserve to see if it dies, I ride this way for a week and it doesnt die. yeah. so I bring the bike back to the shop, they keep it for 4 days, they can’t figure it out. They took apart the pep cock or something it’s called, and couldn’t find anything wrong with it, they called up Suzuki to ask them, no one has a clue. So, I picked up the bike and have been riding it on reserve with no probs.
Any ideas? The shop thinks I don’t know how to operate the bike. BUT, I rode it for 4000 miles with no probs and if it dies when gas is on I think it would die when on reserve if it were me, right?
August 12, 2009 at 3:48 pm #21541megaspazParticipanttake it to a different shop. There is most likely a reason for your bike dying. take it to some one who will pull it apart and check every bit of the engine, gas tank, fuel lines, etc.
August 12, 2009 at 10:38 pm #21555MunchParticipantsounds like a partially clogged main fuel line. Once the fuel gets low in the tank and you switch to reserve the valve switches it to another line to pull from a different side/cavity of the tank..the reserve. Not all bikes are designed this way but I have heard of this on another forum. Putting it in the reserve switch allows the clear line to draw fuel up and the overflow from the regular tank flows over in continuous feed to the reserve side.
I am not 100% sure on this as I am not a bike mechanic but redin in other forums around the net, it seems to be a common issue and solution, IF your bike is designed this way. -
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