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Hello all, first post. My wife and I have been on bikes for 4 yrs. I have almost 20yrs of musclecar experience, so I'm handy around the cars, learning about the differences in bikes.
Here's the deal- 99 Savage, ~11k mi (only gets ridden about 500mi/yr right now-which may be part of the problem). We bought it 4 yrs ago for my wife. Most of the time it runs fine, with the usual lean condition (from what I've read). Every once and awhile though, it acts as though the floats are stuck, or there's crap on the seat or something. It will load up and die coming up to every stop or turn and will even load up down the road. There has been a time or 2 when the bowl to main body seam was wet, as though the fuel level was too high, but this is not always true.
The first 2 yrs it only happened a couple times and in the fall only. Now it seems to be a crap shoot, hot or cold, humid or not, no real weather condition tied to whether it'll act up.
I have had limited success tapping the bowl/body with a hammer. Like an old holley that's been turned upside down, sometimes this seems to help (if the floats were stuck or there was crap on the seat, this makes sense)
We had the dealer do the head gasket last summer due to an oil leak. At that time I told them about all this and they inspected and 'cleaned up' the carb. We took it back a week later with the same problem. The second trip didn't fix it either.
Was reading on here yesterday about petcock issues, I will check the vac hose for gas. Most of the stuff I've read here has not been such an intermittent problem for people though. That's the frustrating part of this of course. My wife has about 0% confidence in the back right now.
I do have the Clymer manual, so any references to that or ideas in general are welcome. Thanks
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