How's your fuel economy?

Could it possibly be leaking somewhere, like the leaking petcock line,
but the higher speeds and airflow rates of wider opened throttle
compensates for it somewhat?

-Kurt

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Graham Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:
> try some seafoam first Javier. If it's slow speed jets, I don't know why it
> idles okay,  Graham
>
> On Aug 25, 2010, at 10:06 PM, Joey Kelley wrote:
>
>> Just a thought - could the idle jets be plugged up - but the mid and
>> high range jets be fine? My 450 was like that until I swapped carbs -
>> wouldn't idle or start unless I held it at half throttle.
>>         -Joey
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Kyle Munz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Before you mentioned the gasoline smell I was suspicious of the vacuum
>>> line.
>>> If it's got a pinhole leak it could case that. At higher RPMs the vacuum
>>> would overcome it but at lower and starting it may not. But the gas smell
>>> has me wondering...
>>>
>>> -Kyle
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Javier Garcia <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> today I took off to work as usual. The NH 750 started right away, like
>>>> every day. After ~15 highway miles I got to work and in the parking lot
>>>> I
>>>> start having less power and sort of hesitation at low speed and low rpm.
>>>> I
>>>> thought I was out of gas, switched to reserve and parked. After work it
>>>> took
>>>> me a couple of tries to start it, and the problem persisted. I filled
>>>> out
>>>> the tank, and the same. It seems to be more difficult to start it every
>>>> time
>>>> during now. I don't feel any problems while going fast, or even at high
>>>> rpms. Probably above 3k rpm is fine, and the ideling is fine too. It
>>>> does
>>>> smells a lot to gasoline.
>>>> Where should I start looking in?
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> Javier.
>>>>
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