Just a little tip, if you feel so inclined.
Be aware that once you go through all this cleaning and pea-shooting, you can eventually get the same crap happen again, unless you kill it at the source. Your gas tank.
BELIEVE ME, It is a ROYAL P.I.T.A to get that tank out, clean it, coat the inside with a well respected brand of tank sealer, and put it back in. (I used the 3 step KBS Tank Sealer kit).
After that main part is completed, you can take out your fuel lines and clean them. Take out your fuel pump and clean out the orifices and rubber diaphragms.
Once that's done, get into those carbs.
Give them a good cleaning (I broke down each carb and place all parts into an ultra sonic cleaner (I picked up the large one from Harbor Freight Tools).
I was completely shocked, to see how much shit the ultra sonic cleaner removed.. Even after pea-shooting my carbs 4 times earlier. The parts came out looking like new.
last time I took my carbs apart to try different mains, the carbs looked like pure water had been running through them. NOT A SPECK of grit anywhere and the fuel was 100% clear.
After all that work, my crazy ass would take a 5 gallon fuel jug to get fuel.. Just so I could look into the container to see the fuel is clear before putting it in my bike.
I did all of this because one day I fueled up and went riding.. Bike died on the side of the road. I had to get it towed back home. it cost me $175.00 to get a tow less than 1 mile from the house.
Once I got home, I took a look the fuel line and it was completely clogged with this brown shit that looked like rust. I could not even blow air through it. My friends was claiming that it was rust from my tank.. I was like, No Freakin way, I could not have that much rust in my tank, all of a sudden. I would have no metal left if it was rust from my tank.
After trying for 2 weeks to siphon this shit out of my tank, I had to break down and take the tank out. All together, I collected about 5 coffee cups full of this rust looking shit, that clogged up my fuel system. Some of these pieces were big.. Biggest piece was 6mm by .5mm flat. Out of curiosity, I put some of the particles under a microscope and found that these things were flat and shattered but all of them were like .5mm in thickness. like a giant jigsaw puzzle. Also, NONE of these particles had any magnetic properties what so ever.. Rust, grows like a plant spore off of metal, and rust is magnetically attractive. So the only thing that would make sense, is, the liner coating on the inside of the underground fuel tank, degraded after the introduction of Ethanol in our fuel.
Thinking about it later, I remember the tanker was there at the gas station.. All of this could have bee avoided by going to another station if the tanker was there.
....my front two cylinders are firing good.....rear right cylinder fires when i spray a little carb cleaner in the carb. but the rear left does not fire. Took out the spark plug , started the engine and I have good spark. Where to start ?
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