RSRBOB, You may have something of substance on both quiz answers. As I said what occurred could have been a combination of several things. I did add additives to absorb water...basically it is an alcohol. This could have contributed to the problem. I agree totally. The only problem is I went through several tanks of gas and still had the problem with no additive.
Again, though you may still have a point. I did try to use HighTest gasoline looking for any possible solution, which I normally don't burn. It might have contributed to the lower flash point in the fuel line. Your other comments about the ECU's atmospheric pressure sensor could also be right on. I thought of this also. Especially, when I could allow the bike to sit....and the bike would be fine for awhile, sometimes for a long way. Until I started back up to a higher elevation. Yesterday something occurred that leads me to believe the ECU sensor may be a major culprit. I went to the garage and tried to start the bike, since it had been sitting for a couple of weeks. It wouldn't start. I cranked it and played with it for 3 or 4 minutes and finally got it to kick over. It was running rich and continued to run way to rich even after warmed up...black raw fuel smoke poring out. It didn't want to clear out and ran very poorly. I shut it down. I did nothing to the bike. Today I started it and it clicked right over as it normally does. No rich fuel problem at all. Making believe the ECU may be the real problem. The partially collapsed fuel strainer may just be another link in a combination of problems occurring all at the same time. Good points.... hawke On 7/11/02 7:56 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will add this. Winterized fuel boils at 40 degrees lower temperature than > summer fuels. I have seen problems as a result of winterized fuel in > motorcycles, atvs and watercraft. Although you may have created your own > problems and not really given us enough information to make informed > opinions, bear in mind distillers will sell out of all winterized fuel so it > could occur that warm weather will overlap winterized fuels. A simple > explanation as to why winterized fuels boil at lower temps is the additives > they use to keep the fuel from freezing has that side effect. > RSRBOB >
