Stuck Choke Cable

this is what was stuck on mine.

What i did was -

1. Removed the seat to allow the tank to lift up, undo the plastic pannels at the side of the seat by undoing the allen bolt on either side the plastic panel should swing to the side out the way, then undo the two allen bolts holding the seat in place one on either side. take the seat off and place out the way ( dont want to be tripping over it, not that i did that)

2. lift the tank by removing the two allen bolts at the front of the tank you should then be able to lift the front of the tank up. there is a tank stay under your passenger seat pull that out and put it through one of the holes and through the hole the bolt come out from like so -

3. locate the choke slider - here it might be the one on the fron carb but will look the same if not very simular. when you have found this try moving it in and out and try moving the choke on the bars, keep working it in and out, i used a very very small amount of wd40 under the rubber boot that goes over the mettal tube, this helped free it up so it moved freely, try work the choke on the bars at the same time trying to free it. This should work. if it sticks again so that it revs a lil high once the bike starts then keep in nuetral and rev the bike just below limiter hold for a second and release, this freed it up when it got slightly stuck a couple of days later.

hope this helps

Very Informative bump after 2 years...

[yorkie_chris]

I think she's probably sold it by now.

But have a gander at this if you have same problems
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc7uyMs-YtQ


Loctite tereoson spray grease has the perfect sized nozzle to fill the splitter box

In fairness, the posts were deleted but some guy came on giving me abuse for asking the question yesterday so that's why there was a thread resurrection.

Hopefully this thread will help someone else though because I think it's a fairly common problem in curvy models.

[Sir Trev]

Originally Posted by Milky Bar Kid

In fairness, the posts were deleted but some guy came on giving me abuse for asking the question yesterday so that's why there was a thread resurrection.

Hopefully this thread will help someone else though because I think it's a fairly common problem in curvy models.

Not sure what that guy was on...

And you're right - it is indeed a common curvy problem.

Some guy was giving MBK abuse for asking a question? What is wrong with people these days.

I missed it, obv.

Primarily caused by rain running down the choke cable from the handlebar, finding it's way to the splitter box, getting inside and then running down the internals of the cable to the front choke plunger.

Originally Posted by Stig

Primarily caused by rain running down the choke cable from the handlebar, finding it's way to the splitter box, getting inside and then running down the internals of the cable to the front choke plunger.

Ah, that makes sense.

I think mines had been well and truly seized, took my uncle a while to free it up but once he had done it, I had no issue with it for the next 2 years.

O lol thought it was new thread as it was near the top lol and to think I spent time gettin pictures and circling the bits on paint, well I hope it helps someone else

I only posted to bump the thread after all your hard work mate.