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04-17-2007, 01:31 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Mar 2007
Bike: '97 GSXR600
Location: Calgary
Posts: 3
|  97 GSXR600 problem
Hello all, This is my first post to the forum. We're just warming up, here in Calgary, and I'm having some post-winter problems with my bike. It was all fine before the winter - actually, there was a noticeable smell of gas after a ride, and even a small leak (it seems to be on carb 1) - but it was close to the end of the season and I was hoping to get to it over the winter - no such luck. Other than that, all was fine with the bike. Anyway, I gave it a spring cleaning and fired it up, but now it is having some problems. It has moderate power in first gear, but switch into second (or third) and it seems to starve for fuel - the engine almost cuts out, and then fires again after a few seconds. Even in first you can get this behaviour - it simply doesn't respond to the throttle, or it is very delayed, and only for a short burst, especially at any sort of higher rpm's. So thinking it was a fuel problem, I checked the fuelcock, applying a vacuum and running the fuelpump directly gave me well over a liter of gas in maybe 30 seconds. So that seems fine. It starts easily and idles fine, and even when you touch the throttle while in neutral, it seems pretty good, though if you give it a double twist, the second twist gives the big lag. The engine itself sounds fine. I've run it through the gears on the stand, and even that is fine. One thing I did do was clean my K&N air filter (with the K&N kit). I'm not sure if insufficient air could produce this effect, but I'm reluctant to run it without the air filter to see if that is the problem (I'm wondering if I somehow clogged up the air filter with the new oil). The choke seems fine, so now I've run out of ideas. Any advice out there? Thanks, Julian |
