05 RIDGEBACK PETCOCK PROBLEM?????
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TheDeadOne
Banned
Chop,
I've got a question here.
Did you wash the filter, or just let it dip away the excess?
I've got a question here.
Did you wash the filter, or just let it dip away the excess?
Chopper117
Chopper Nutt
I washed it in warm soapy water and let it soak for a while and then let it dry and then LIGHTLY sprayed oil on it and let it dry overnight with a fan in front of it.
TheDeadOne
Banned
Ok, just making sure.
It's a fuel issue not a "lack of air" like we were all previously thinking.
Just go ahead and remove petcock & check it out. It only takes a few minutes.
I can't imagine how any excess oil on/in the air filter could foul up anything in the carb. here.
Check it out and let us know!
It's a fuel issue not a "lack of air" like we were all previously thinking.
Just go ahead and remove petcock & check it out. It only takes a few minutes.
I can't imagine how any excess oil on/in the air filter could foul up anything in the carb. here.
Check it out and let us know!
Chopper117
Chopper Nutt
Thx Dead I'll let ya know if this solves the problem. U2 LDO.
TheDeadOne
Banned
It may not solve, but it'll get you & us(LDO & I) closer! :lol:
Chopper117
Chopper Nutt
:2thumbs:That's right!!
TheDeadOne
Banned
Good questions! :2thumbs:Taking a step back...... You didn't have this problem before you oiled the filter? And all you did was oil the filter?
Nothing else was touched?
Chopper117
Chopper Nutt
No motor work yet. It started to do this after I cleaned the K&N and I used to much oil on it and thought that might of been the problem.
TheDeadOne
Banned
Ok, so your original description of "when" the problem started was correct, "immediately" after over oiling the air filter. Nothing before that time, correct?
Nothing else was done or adjusted at all, correct?
Since then you've washed it out, let it dry, and lightly re-oiled it, correct?
And your still encountering the same stumbling problem "only" in 1 gear and "no" stumble whatsoever in all the other gears, correct?
Just want to make sure all of these comments are correct.
When you removed the air filter to wash it out, what did the throat of the carb. look like? Lots of oily residue all over it?
I won't be around here much today, in & out all day. So guys what I wondering here is if the excess oil was sucked through the "Squirter Venturi" and in someway stopped it up or partially blocked it. It'd be a first for me, but I can't see how the induction of any excess oil into the carb. could affect it this way. The throttle body venturi (throat) is not open to any other areas other than the air filter(outside) and intake & head (inside).
I'll check bak in as soon as I can.
"Curious minds want to know" WTF!
Good Luck!:2thumbs:
Nothing else was done or adjusted at all, correct?
Since then you've washed it out, let it dry, and lightly re-oiled it, correct?
And your still encountering the same stumbling problem "only" in 1 gear and "no" stumble whatsoever in all the other gears, correct?
Just want to make sure all of these comments are correct.
When you removed the air filter to wash it out, what did the throat of the carb. look like? Lots of oily residue all over it?
I won't be around here much today, in & out all day. So guys what I wondering here is if the excess oil was sucked through the "Squirter Venturi" and in someway stopped it up or partially blocked it. It'd be a first for me, but I can't see how the induction of any excess oil into the carb. could affect it this way. The throttle body venturi (throat) is not open to any other areas other than the air filter(outside) and intake & head (inside).
I'll check bak in as soon as I can.
"Curious minds want to know" WTF!
Good Luck!
:2thumbs:
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jimizee028
TRUE COLORS COLLISION
you sprayed oil back on the filter and then let it dry overnite?????i would let it dry overnite and then spray oil onto it,the oil wont allow it to completely dry....anyway maybe too much oil passed through and somehow someway partly fouled a plug???maybe remove and clean or just replace?????
TheDeadOne
Banned
I've been thinking on your problem this morning during my travels!
Ok, you saturated the air filter with a "lot" of oil! To the point that the air filters excess oil could just drip off, right? So you cleaned out the air filter, but the stumbling was still there, right? Now we've all been wondering how "could" this previous saturation of oil it affect the operation of the carb. to cause a stumble, right?
I kept going over and over all of this in my head, and as to what you did to correct it and what still resulted! I just couldn't figure out or see "how" that could affect anything with the operations of your carb!
Then it hit me like a ton of bricks!...DUH!...Like I said :loony:
"It shouldn't nor couldn't"! and "It Didn't"!
The excess oil got "sucked" into the carb., right?
Check the "SPARK PLUGS"!......I'm :loony:
I have the feeling the oil saturation may have been great enough to completely make it through the carb., and straight into the combustion chamber and foul the plugs.
Im sorry! I may be slow"er" :loony: these days, but I'm still here trying! :lol:
"I think":lol: we may have the explanation here!
Good Luck!:2thumbs:
Ok, you saturated the air filter with a "lot" of oil! To the point that the air filters excess oil could just drip off, right? So you cleaned out the air filter, but the stumbling was still there, right? Now we've all been wondering how "could" this previous saturation of oil it affect the operation of the carb. to cause a stumble, right?
I kept going over and over all of this in my head, and as to what you did to correct it and what still resulted! I just couldn't figure out or see "how" that could affect anything with the operations of your carb!
Then it hit me like a ton of bricks!...DUH!...Like I said :loony:
"It shouldn't nor couldn't"! and "It Didn't"!
The excess oil got "sucked" into the carb., right?
Check the "SPARK PLUGS"!......I'm :loony:
I have the feeling the oil saturation may have been great enough to completely make it through the carb., and straight into the combustion chamber and foul the plugs.
Im sorry! I may be slow"er" :loony: these days, but I'm still here trying! :lol:
"I think":lol: we may have the explanation here!
Good Luck!:2thumbs:
MARV
Well-Known Member
good trouble shooting but i guess it sounds better when thedeadone says it! :roll:
sounds familiar.
TheDeadOne
Banned
:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
I'm a little :loony: this morning!
Like I said...Duh! :lol:
Sorry Jim, Your post wasn't there when I started typing! :lol: Too many interruptions!
Good Job Jim! :2thumbs:
We both thinking alike here. :2thumbs:
Just don't get sloooooooow like me! :lol:
I must be like someones signature states on here: "There's not cure for "STUPID"! :lol:
:2thumbs::2thumbs::2thumbs::2thumbs:
I'm a little :loony: this morning!
Like I said...Duh! :lol:
Sorry Jim, Your post wasn't there when I started typing! :lol: Too many interruptions!
Good Job Jim! :2thumbs:
We both thinking alike here. :2thumbs:
Just don't get sloooooooow like me! :lol:
I must be like someones signature states on here: "There's not cure for "STUPID"! :lol:
:2thumbs::2thumbs::2thumbs::2thumbs:
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Chopper117
Chopper Nutt
Hey guys, I appreciate all the feed back that I'm getting. I pulled the Petcock last night and it seemed fine and gas was flowing fine through it and the screen was clean as could be so I don't think the Petcock had anything to do with it. When I get home tonight I will pull the plugs and see what they look like and I won't be able to test drive until Friday evening to see if it is still stalling in first gear. If the plugs are fouled, I should know just by looking at them right?
jimizee028
TRUE COLORS COLLISION
I THINK PLUGS MIGHT COST YOU $10 pick up a set and put them in and be done with this tradgedy....get in the wind i am allready slow...i started writing that reply yesterday.........................
Chopper117
Chopper Nutt
SOUNDS GOOD TO ME JIMI! THX BRO.