late for work and bikes playing up

Originally Posted by Dangerous Dave

Make sure you clean out the drainage hole too....




Cold enough for Carb Icing?

ooooh whats that spring for?

off to look for my hole now.

Originally Posted by AndyBrad

ooooh whats that spring for?

Race exhaust system

oh, seems to be doing nowt thats all.?

Ok stuck a paperclip in the hole and it appears to be free. Started it up and its still a little spluttery. Took the plug cap off and had a looksee and not a lot tbh. not had the plug out as its a pain just moving the rad. It seems to be on initial pickup like its missing . Get it going and give it some stick and it seems to be ok 90% of the time. its that initial twist of the throttle where it splutters.

[yorkie_chris]

Bring it down my house and we have a look

Probley best getting that plug out and having a look. Not sure if the naked's have raditor fans but if it does undo the three holding it to the back of the radiator and you can drop it right down infront of the front cylinder.

Originally Posted by AndyBrad

oh, seems to be doing nowt thats all.?

Its holding my front header on, different set up to OEM.

Ok folks,

Right setting off from work last night started on the button as per usual. No problems there, gave it a few revs (in neutral) and it seemed well and good. Set off and it was struggling. When its in gear and going along it is like its only running on one cylinder. Just about to join the ring road in hudds and it cut out mid corner making me do a speedway style slide to a halt. Scared me bloody ****less tbh. Anyway started it again and got it onto the ring road and it really wasn’t happy so swung it around to work. Let it idle for a few mins and it seemed to eb better. Still rough as but at least I could pile the revs on and get home.

Got going and made it to Halfords and got some wynns dry fuel. I had seen loads of posts about it and also saw that it helped cold starting. Result. Dropped half a bottle in the tank and after it had been left to think about it while I was in there it started on the button and was fine all the 5 miles home.

Come to this morning. I thought right. Started it up after several attempts (thought the battery was going to go flat. Needed some choke as well which is very unusual but managed to get it started. So left it while I had breaky. Now got it out front and it was just the same fine on idle and revs but as soon as it needs some torque then it struggles. I needed 5k just to get through Brighouse! Stopped at crowtrees garage and gave it lots of revs (6k) and it would hunt about +_500rpm after about 2-3 mins it started to even out and it was much better. Switched it off and left it for a couple of mins. Started it up and its fine again. Ride in was great but it had taken all of 20+ mins of warming up!

So any more thoughts gents? Im thinking of just picking up 2 new plugs (they were last done about 2.5k miles ago) but its really spoiling the bike tbh. Especially as its my only transport at the mo.

Chris are you free wed night?

I lay bets on a dodgy LT connection to the coil.

If you think it's a fuelling issue, it's usually ignition... and vice versa.

Any ideas of a pic? Or where that is?

Follow the thick wires from the spark plugs up to under the tank, then check the connections on the smaller wires that connect to the plastic blocks the thick wires runs out of.

Excuse the very basic manner I explained it in, but you don't appear to have too much mechanical knowledge, so calling them HT leads, LT leads and coils wouldn't make much sense to you.