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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Wife's bike is bucking Reply #15 - 10/16/08 at 17:09:15 Moofed wrote on 10/16/08 at 11:53:54: Pilot Mixture Screw? welldontIfeelsillynow!
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Re: Wife's bike is bucking
Reply #16 - 10/16/08 at 18:40:01

Charon wrote on 10/16/08 at 16:38:40:

You have just demonstrated that SeaFoam will not clean a carburetor. You had to do it yourself. You may also want to look into the gas tank and see if there is more crud in there - after all, the crud in the carburetor had to come from somewhere. Some of it could have been locally generated in the carb, but probably not all of it. An in-line fuel filter may not be amiss.

Does it prove seafoam does not work, or does it prove that the PO did not use seafoam. I do not think anyone is saying seafoam with clean everything.

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Reply #17 - 10/16/08 at 18:47:14

I think the Seafoam worked and got the bike home. It took about 6 miles just to get to 50 miles per hour. I was seriously looking for alternate routes that didn't take me on the interstate. After I got to 50 mph, it took another 20 minutes or so to get up to 70. After that it ran like crazy. I think the seafoam worked but the damage was worse than I thought. I will be looking into the tank and maybe trying the fuel filter in the near future (or should I say, she will!).

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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: Wife's bike is bucking Reply #18 - 10/16/08 at 19:22:10 I think the seafoam loosened the gunk up a few more day and it would run alright,you don't take a car carb a part why would you take a motorcycle carb apart,I had a motorcycle for over 20 years driven 5 miles a year the carb never was taken apart,other than changing low and high speed jets when new.
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Reply #19 - 10/16/08 at 21:31:48

Charon wrote on 10/16/08 at 16:38:40:

You have just demonstrated that SeaFoam will not clean a carburetor. You had to do it yourself. You may also want to look into the gas tank and see if there is more crud in there - after all, the crud in the carburetor had to come from somewhere. Some of it could have been locally generated in the carb, but probably not all of it. An in-line fuel filter may not be amiss.

i have used sea foam twice and i have been stuck on the side of the road twice with flakes of crud from the float bowl clogging the works. no way that stuff got through the fuel filter. we have 10% ethanol fuel here and it rots everything... including itself! congrats on the successful surgery.

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Reply #20 - 10/16/08 at 21:34:32

bill67 wrote on 10/16/08 at 19:22:10:

I think the seafoam loosened the gunk up a few more day and it would run alright,you don't take a car carb a part why would you take a motorcycle carb apart,I had a motorcycle for over 20 years driven 5 miles a year the carb never was taken apart,other than changing low and high speed jets when new.

what bike was that bill?

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Wife's bike is bucking Reply #22 - 10/17/08 at 02:13:59 That was a HOOT!
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Reply #23 - 10/17/08 at 03:37:45

The bike was a Suzuki GR 650 1983,It sat in a barn for over 20 years,driven 5 miles a year.Do you take the carb off your lawn mower to clean,I've had generators that were 20 years old never had carb off,power cement finishers, bobcats,all kinds of gasoline motors.The one honda generator wouldn't' start if it was low on oil,nice safety feature,Why don't cars and motorcycles have that.

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dropoutjohn Ex Member	Re: Wife's bike is bucking Reply #24 - 10/17/08 at 13:26:29 justin_o_guy2 wrote on 10/17/08 at 02:13:59: That was a HOOT! +1
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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: Wife's bike is bucking Reply #25 - 10/17/08 at 13:42:18 My first bike was a 1971 yamaha RD200
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Reply #26 - 10/17/08 at 13:42:26

sorry if you took offense, i was only curious as to what bike is was that is so reliable.of course it, and all your other gear, was probably stored properly.

we see a lot of improperly stored whirly-birds and mowers and wackers big and small and in my shop... the carb is just easier to get clean if it's off the machine and in the dump tank. but hey, thats just my opinion.

"Why don't cars and motorcycles have that?" good question... i have been asking small engine folks that question for a while now and nobody knows. i wish a few cars i have owned in the past had one Wink

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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: Wife's bike is bucking Reply #27 - 10/17/08 at 13:58:44 I've also had 9 difference snowmobiles,I have changed the jet needles clips many times at 10 degrees in a foot of snow,so I do know about taking carbs apart,and how they work
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Reply #28 - 10/17/08 at 15:43:35

I have already looked up - and posted on this forum - the ingredients of SeaFoam. It consists of approximately one-half Pale Oil (highly refined 20 weight oil); approximately one-third naptha (lighter fluid); and one-sixth isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol). That's it. Pray tell, which of these ingredients will clean a carburetor or a fuel tank, especially diluted two ounces to about 300 ounces of gasoline (a full Savage tank)? One ounce of 20 weight oil in 300 ounces of gas? Two-thirds of an ounce of naptha (itself not much different from gas) in 300 ounces of gas? Or one-third of an ounce of isopropyl alcohol in 300 ounces of gas? A number of folks have griped about 10% ethanol - which would be about 30 ounces of ethanol (a quart) in 300 ounces of fuel - but the tiny amount of alcohol in SeaFoam is wonderful. Like all gas additives (possibly but not certainly excluding Sta-Bil) it is worthless. If you see any effect from its use, it is the Placebo Effect writ large.

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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: Wife's bike is bucking Reply #29 - 10/17/08 at 15:47:39 Charon if I was you I wouldn't use seafoam,But I know a lot of people who use it and like it.Could you tell me whats in Sta-bil
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