justin_o_guy2 wrote on 08/20/11 at 07:06:05:


Are you sure

Sound to me it needs some Sea Foam ran in it.

I understand why Verslagen has referred to "going quiet" in frustration, all the list's humorists have had too too durn much fun with petcock issues in the past.


     mia culpa there too -- arrgh


...... and I also sense that the long string of things you have to do to wend through the complexities of a "carb issue" are getting too steep for a mechanical novice to get their heads around.

Can we simplify this test path in any meaningful fashion?

Seriously, "Throw on a Raptor & plug the port, put a jigger of Seafoam in the gas tank and whack the float bowl 3 times and call my nurse in the morning if it doesn't get any better" is what a typical proctologist would tell him to do for a first step.

(after taking the call on his cell phone from the golf course of course)


Sad thing is this really would fix like 90+ percent of the newbie "carb issues" that we see round here.   But then Routy and Veslagen and Jog and KimChris would be asking "Well, what did you really fix?" and the answer would have to be "Well heck, the shotgun blast took out the burglar, the safe and the wall -- it stopped the problem".

See?   I try to play it straight and you tease me and I tease you back then you get all serious about it.





OK, Snow you jest listen to Serobot and Verslagen -- they are gonna walk you through it all one slow step at a time ....

Don't you be listening to no silly joking proctologists, that's the rest of them (me included) -- as they have their total attention focused on poking some fun up somebody else's shorts anyway.

Could be that he was tryin' to maintain that super low, almost dying idle speed that people seem to think sounds cool...
Dangerous for oil pressure, but sounding cool...

I didn't suspect the petcock on this one,... but with a Savage, any carb problem is best tackled after a simple two minute petcock check, before digging deeper and causing a possible problem...
...

Serowbot wrote on 08/20/11 at 16:33:20:

I agree, your pet check is good to do in any case,...if a person will take a the few minutes time to do it. But excluding any problem w/ fuel running in where it shouldn't be, any other problem can be checked by using the very simple "prime" check. If prime doesn't fix it, a raptor won't either,..simple as that. So I agree, check check check first.

But any advice to raptorize it first,... just to eliminate a problem that mite happen some day ??? :'(
 

Well, lets see a list of all the ones that  raptorizing fixed, excluding the ones that think it mite have fixed it,......or at least helped it, and excluding the ones that will say it fixed it, only because they will never admit that they foolishly spent $30 on something that was supposed to fix their bad idle problem, or their backfiring problem or any other problem that was caused by dirt in the tank and no fuel filter,.... had nothing to do w/ the pethingy.

Better yet, lets see some pictures of all those hundreds of broken diaphrams that came out of all those less than 10yr old bikes,......aw WTH,..make it 15 yr old bikes !

How many times have we heard/read,..."I turned it to prime and it didn't help any" And the ones that said it did fix it, how many of those replaced a vacuum line that was 20 yrs old, and all was well.
Replace ther vacuum hose yearly ?? Quit being so cheap and buy a good vacuum hose. I mean, I know 3 bikes that are 5 yrs old, and the hose is like new yet. Don't believe me, ask Bill !!