Ssky0078
Wizard
Hi guys,
Long time no post for me.
I have an issue that has started recently. On Monday I filled up at my normal filling station. The only thing that was different is I wasn't paying attention and slightly over filled. I parked the bike over night, which it rained and the bike was under covered parking. When I went to ride Tuesday morning and the bike was sputtering and losing power really bad below 4,000 rpms, which sucks for low speed maneuvers. The idle was messed up and sounded like it was missing a cylinder. On decal it was puttering and would cut power a lot as well. I took it into the shop really quick to ask them what the thought it would be so I could plan finances for it. They said it would take them about an hour to do a check. The tech that has been friendliest to me came out and listened to it and thought it was bad gas that he could drain and then fill with good gas to check first. They didn't have an availability right then and there. So I took the bike home, bought some SeaFoam on the way and put some in on top of the gas that I had filled with to start the problem. The SeaFoam seemed to help slightly but still have an issue.
My questions
1. Could the spark plugs go out over night? Could the Ignition coil go out? (all I could think of is either the gas that had run down off the tank on to it or the moisture in the air from the rain.
2. How would I test this myself for the ignition system?
3. What's the best and cheapest place to get new coils? Are coils something that should be replaced at any given interval (I'm at 44,000 miles)?
4. Are there any other things I should be thinking of (other than bad gas which I will run a few tanks of SeaFoam to purge that out of the system)?
Long time no post for me.
I have an issue that has started recently. On Monday I filled up at my normal filling station. The only thing that was different is I wasn't paying attention and slightly over filled. I parked the bike over night, which it rained and the bike was under covered parking. When I went to ride Tuesday morning and the bike was sputtering and losing power really bad below 4,000 rpms, which sucks for low speed maneuvers. The idle was messed up and sounded like it was missing a cylinder. On decal it was puttering and would cut power a lot as well. I took it into the shop really quick to ask them what the thought it would be so I could plan finances for it. They said it would take them about an hour to do a check. The tech that has been friendliest to me came out and listened to it and thought it was bad gas that he could drain and then fill with good gas to check first. They didn't have an availability right then and there. So I took the bike home, bought some SeaFoam on the way and put some in on top of the gas that I had filled with to start the problem. The SeaFoam seemed to help slightly but still have an issue.
My questions
1. Could the spark plugs go out over night? Could the Ignition coil go out? (all I could think of is either the gas that had run down off the tank on to it or the moisture in the air from the rain.
2. How would I test this myself for the ignition system?
3. What's the best and cheapest place to get new coils? Are coils something that should be replaced at any given interval (I'm at 44,000 miles)?
4. Are there any other things I should be thinking of (other than bad gas which I will run a few tanks of SeaFoam to purge that out of the system)?