Bike sputtering/Bogs down feel
Bike sputtering/Bogs down feel
The 1st time I noticed this sputtering bogging down feel was when I was coming home from work one night and I was coming up a hill I was doing 70mph and it started like it was cutting out then bogging down like I was putting to much throttle and it was flooding out, but I didn't put any throttle in, I actually came off the throttle and then gave it some throttle to make it up the hill. It felt this way for about 2 miles, then I turned down the road going to my house and it was fine. I gave it some throttle and it sped up like nothing wrong with it. Now since then I've had a carb recall fix on it and the float bowl gasket and float fixed. So when I picked up the bike after getting float bowl gasket and float fixed it rode great, rode it around town for maybe 30 min. So when I was going home I took the long road home and it had a hill on it and it started doing the same thing, I was actually doing 70 mph and about halfway up the hill it started slowing down then it sputtered then it felt like it was bogging down let off the throttle, then gave it some throttle made it back up to 65 then right before my turn off it was a straight away and it felt like wasn't any fuel getting to carb. So I turned down another road, thinking crap I'm going to break down, but after that bogging down up the hill it didn't do it on any of the straight road, actually got bike up to 80 on a straight away and no sputtering or bogging down. Sorry for long story!! Any suggestion on what ya'll think it might be?
Last edited by bigpappa160; Feb 2, 2016 at 02:15 PM.
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the cap vent has been covered over with the $hit gas we get today and is partly clogged as the fuel lowers in the tank a vacume happens and pulls the fuel backwards causing a lean out
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Was the problem with the carb before or after the problem in this thread?
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Texashillcountry, the night before I took bike in for carb recall work I was going up a hill on the way home from work and t did the same thing I've been describing. I told the Manager when I took it in. When I got it back I rode it home pretty much flat land no sputtering or bogging down. The a couple days latter was going to ride to work but thats when I discovered the fuel leak. They fix the fuel leak, picked it up and went up the hill and same thing sputtering and bogging down. Goint to take it oua nd ride it and hit a couple of significant hills and see what it does, if it does the sputtering and bogging down I'll take it back in and have them fix it.
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Texashillcountry, the night before I took bike in for carb recall work I was going up a hill on the way home from work and t did the same thing I've been describing. I told the Manager when I took it in. When I got it back I rode it home pretty much flat land no sputtering or bogging down. The a couple days latter was going to ride to work but thats when I discovered the fuel leak. They fix the fuel leak, picked it up and went up the hill and same thing sputtering and bogging down. Goint to take it oua nd ride it and hit a couple of significant hills and see what it does, if it does the sputtering and bogging down I'll take it back in and have them fix it.
Thanks I was getting a little confused on the timeline of events.
Yes Sir texashillcountry, it did it a couple of days before I took it in to get the carb recall done. Then after I picked the bike up I rode home on fairly straight roads so no sputtering or boging down. Noticed fuel leak when I went to start bike to go to work, shut it down trailered it in to HD shop. Got it fixed, driving it home, going up a hill started sputtering and bogging down until I got on a staight away. Don't know if the float is messed up or what, that's why I was going to take it out to some hills and see if it does it again, if so I'll get it fix