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Title: Rough Idle Post by Tm96s40 on 07/27/13 at 12:59:22 Hello. I am new here. I bought a beautiful 1996 Savage that had only 4600 miles on it in SoCal. I have put about 600 miles on it and it recently started to have a rough idle (it did not have this when I bought it). As I started with the basics - checked the air filter and started looking at the bike, I noticed that I have a leak that appears to be dripping from a box under the bike. This is a CA edition bike. Is this the vapor box? I ask because I did not get the OEM manual with the bike, but have picked up couple on-line and they refer to a vapor hose - only for CA models. Any suggestions on what to do? Again this all started with a rough idle. Thanks for your help. |
Title: Re: Rough Idle Post by verslagen1 on 07/27/13 at 13:40:33 1st thing is check your petcock use the link below, go down to petcocks what you want is "test your petcock" |
Title: Re: Rough Idle Post by Tm96s40 on 07/27/13 at 15:49:39 Turns out it was pretty basic (as I said earlier I am new to this). Maybe someone else can learn from this as well. The bike had not been run in a couple of weeks. My son then ran it for a couple of days and let the tank empty (almost). When I got on it, it had a rough idle. I then filled the tank, thinking there may water in the line. Still rough idle, so I bought parts (o-rings, gaskets, and fuel line for fuel thingy) to clean out the fuel thingy and empty the tank - thinking there may be some debris in the line. Today I started the bike up - let it run for a few minutes and played with the idle - noticed the leak. Long story short - according to my local mechanic - fuel probably separated and caused the rough idle. The leak that I saw and described was probably weeping from overfilling the tank. Bike runs fine now. Didn't do anything except let it run. I got some fuel stabilizer to prevent it from happening again. |
Title: Re: Rough Idle Post by Tm96s40 on 07/27/13 at 16:00:43 funny editing - just noticed that there is an auto editor on this. I wrote fuelcock with a space in between and it came out as fuel thingy. Oh well. I wasn't trying to be crude. That's just what the manual calls it. Another word for petcock. |
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