idle, bike that is.
 

washed my S.V. this morning all ready for a fun ride in the sunshine. bike didn't feel right, all popping and phlut phlut. crawled home in a sorry state.
now i know they're not the best for water ingress in the electrics.
but where do I start looking first.
I'm beginning to feel its the showroom.

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Wet front plug ?

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+1, try and ride round for a bit, locally if your worried about it dieing and not restarting, round your estate etc mine was missing the other day i went out for a ride every time i stopped it kept trying to stall and cut out every so often but once i ridden for a bit it was fine :thumright:

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Spray some WD40 in the drainage hole for the front plug. This should get rid of water in there.

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thanks peeps.
sean, wheres the drainage hole for the front plug??
b.t.w. its a pointy.

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I have no idea on a pointy, on a curvy its on the riders right, about half way down the cylinder.

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About the same place on a Pointy as well . I had a similar problem a while back with the bike running like a sack of poo . I ended up buying 2 new plugs and it was fine after that . I think the core on the front plug had degraded to the point of uselessness , I suspect they were the OEM plugs as well and had done around 17k so had been worked hard . Manual suggests a change at 7k , banged 2 new ones in and instantly the bike was spot on .

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thanks again guys. i think i've located the drainer sean, seen it a million times and never knew what it was for. right then, off t'garage.