car7083 wrote on 04/19/12 at 18:12:27:it didnt run out of gas, i know it was not the petcock or the carb, i had the carb rebuilt tuesday, and the stock petcock is allways "on" (he has a stock petcock) and i just added a fuel cutoff and filter between it and the carb, there was plenty of fuel in the fuel filter, im fairly certian it is a mechanical problem, i have read that the timing chain tensioner or somthing wears out on these bikes, mine has 12k miles but everything i have read says they do not usually go out til around 30k miles
Here is what a gone cam chain tensioner sounds like .... (note the bike still runs when the cam chain tensioner goes ... it doesn't die like it is out of gas)
here is the thread, got us lots of examples of running dead cam chain tensioner bikes ......
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1308708632You need to listen to what folks are saying -- your bike stopped and won't start. That is gas or electrical. Check them switches and key positions and side stand switches.
Take your air filter out of the hole and spray ether (staring fluid) into the air box, turn the ignition to the proper "on" and hit the starter with a fully charged battery.
Why fully charged? Because a partial charge on the battery (less than 10 volts when cranking) will spin the motor but the black box won't fire the plug if the voltage drops below 10 volts while cranking. It is a little quirk Suzuki black boxes are known for ....
Charge your battery. Shoot the ether. Turn the bike "on". Crank the bike. If it even tries to start, you got gas supply issues.
If it doesn't try to start, you got spark issues.
You had the carb rebuilt last Tuesday. hmmmmm ..... this may be a Mikey issue.