| Author | Message | ||
     Elmono |
Started the bike today and fire jumped out of my aircleaner. Actual flames. This cannot be good. Also alot of sputter on start. Now what? Thanks. | ||
| Naustin |
Sounds like it just backfired though the carb. `01 M2 is still carb'd, isn't it? Unless it does it again, or something else seems wrong with it, I'd not worry about it too much. Might want to check your TB and intake manifold seals for leaks or damage, but as I said, if the bike doesn't seem to be hurt, it probably isn't. | ||
| Bomber |
+1 on Naustin's post -- any one of a number of reasons for a backfire through the carb -- I'm betting on one of a couple of scenarios -fuel petcok left on -- fuel snuck past the float needle valve and left a bunch of gas in the intake manifold -ditto cept the petcock leaks -shut down hot, started fairly soon afterwards, my M2 sneezes about 20% of the time when this is the case fire her up and she if her throat clears up after a couple of miles | ||
| Djkaplan |
My M2 does the same thing, sometimes. I heard someone call this a "stackfire", a term which I believe comes from steam powered locomotives. I always liked that term. Seems to be the nature of the beast. I've seen quite a few carbed tubers do this. I wonder if the single fire coils could be causing this? | ||
| Justin_case |
You mean dual fire, right? |
