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Disaster, coming in to work this morning and thought I'd suprisingly ran out of petrol, went got some more and bike won't start. ARHHH
Do I need to wait awhile for the petrol to run through? |
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all the crap that was floating in the tank is now in your fuel filter, might be blocking it, not sure how long the bike would take to re-wet the fuel system though, would have thought with the fuel pump it would be fairly quick
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+1. The older the vehicle, the more likely there is to be crap in the tank and consequently these sort of problems. I ran my decade old 106 dry once and it refused to start, fuelling was ropey for a good while afterwards. That said, after running my K4 dry for the first time at the tail end of last year I didn't encounter any problems.
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got it started now obviously was panicking as going to the eccosse AR tomorrow and drained the battery again, jumped it and all ok. I had it services the other week and they put in fuel cleaner so would have been runnig slightly rough anyway.
Thanks for the help. BTW being a twin is it usual to drain the battery as quickly 3 - 5 times tying to start her? |
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