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tompickles YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 4	cold weather,petcock? 04/20/10 at 19:22:12 I live in ny,owned this bike for 2 years,brand new carb,new plug,high test gas...runs terrible in cold IE 60 degrees or just won`t start when cold.heard petcock comman problem was told to run in reserve posistion any suggustions greatly appreciated.)_pickles
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tompickles YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 4	Re: cold weather,petcock? Reply #1 - 04/20/10 at 19:29:56 the ride
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28886 L.A. California Gender:	Re: cold weather,petcock? Reply #2 - 04/20/10 at 19:30:04 60° ain't cold, but you know that. get's down to 40° once in a while, never had a lick of trouble lighten her up. humidity may give you trouble. but tell, what did the plug look like? how does it run when hot? what does it do? be descriptive
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tompickles YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 4	Re: cold weather,petcock? Reply #3 - 04/20/10 at 19:34:29 when hot quick start,when engine gets hot idle goes through roof,no carbon on plug but still seems to foul constantly changing plug,blue
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28886 L.A. California Gender:	Re: cold weather,petcock? Reply #4 - 04/20/10 at 19:47:28 take 2 jets, call in the morning.
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Routy Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2280 Winston Oregon Gender:	Re: cold weather,petcock? Reply #5 - 04/21/10 at 06:22:53 Wow ! How did it run before the new carb ? tompickles wrote on 04/20/10 at 19:34:29: when hot quick start,when engine gets hot idle goes through roof,no carbon on plug but still seems to foul constantly changing plug,blue
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28886 L.A. California Gender:	Re: cold weather,petcock? Reply #6 - 04/21/10 at 11:35:37 assuming you have stock jets now, a 150 main would be a good start. get a set of jets from lancer. tell us about your bike, years, miles, mods.
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Re: cold weather,petcock?
Reply #7 - 04/21/10 at 11:53:08

Tom P,
I live on the east side of PA and use to ride to work any day the weather was over 40 degress and not raining.

The first 2 or 3 miles were a pain due to stalling at lights. That's an idle speed thing (solved with small shim made from refirg magnet) .

I did have an issue on the days that semmed colder. The bike seemed like it was running out of gas. I switch to reserve and that hepled for tiny bit, then had to go to prime. It only did it a few times. It didn't do it after doing the petcock manual conversion.

My thought is that the diaphram was getting stiff and the cold made it worse.

Engineers design things, Technicians make them work.
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