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youzguyz Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 2538 San Antonio, Texas Gender:	Re: Bike just died while riding and wouldnt restar Reply #15 - 04/11/17 at 10:18:29 Tpot wrote on 04/11/17 at 09:55:34: I'm not positive if this is the cause but when I took the float bowl off the pilot just was sitting in the bottom yessssss... that could cause some.. issues
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Tpot Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 74 Hartford Michigan Gender:	Re: Bike just died while riding and wouldnt restar Reply #16 - 04/11/17 at 10:20:19 I got it back in and now it runs great. Any thing I can do to prevent that from happening?
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18101 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: Bike just died while riding and wouldnt restar Reply #17 - 04/11/17 at 10:46:44 Tpot wrote on 04/11/17 at 09:55:34: I'm not positive if this is the cause but when I took the float bowl off the pilot just was sitting in the bottom Yep......betcha that would make the fuel/air mixture a tad too wet!
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Gary_in_NJ Serious Thumper Offline LS650 Cafe Racer Posts: 2633 Amongst the Twisty Roads	Re: Bike just died while riding and wouldnt restar Reply #18 - 04/11/17 at 11:21:31 Tpot wrote on 04/11/17 at 10:20:19: I got it back in and now it runs great. Any thing I can do to prevent that from happening? That's a one in a million failure. I wouldn't suggest loctite or anything like that, the brass used for the jets is soft and easily deformed.
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Tpot Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 74 Hartford Michigan Gender:	Re: Bike just died while riding and wouldnt restar Reply #19 - 04/11/17 at 11:23:16 Alright well at least it was something simple
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Re: Bike just died while riding and wouldnt restar
Reply #20 - 04/11/17 at 12:06:25

Tpot wrote on 04/11/17 at 09:55:34:

I'm not positive if this is the cause but when I took the float bowl off the pilot just was sitting in the bottom

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And that would have been "sudden"! Good job finding that and THANK YOU for finding the problem, fixing it and reporting back. You just saved us 6 weeks and 8 pages of guessing what the problem was! Wink

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