Hello
Recently purchased a 2001 Bird which has been awesome.
From purchase, it seemed to be a bit 'fuelly' at idle, but otherwise great. Until yesterday....
Whilst riding home from work, it lost power and progressively lowered its ability to rev. Like it had a reducing rev limiter.
After about 5km's, I couldn't even get it to leave the traffic lights so I pulled over. There are no warning lights at all, and temp, oil pressure etc all fine. 3/4's tank of 98 fuel.
Being new to fuel injection, I did the only thing which come to mind and that was turn it off and restarted it. It fired up fine and presented no issue for another 5kms where it started again. I shut it down whilst coasting, and rolled started it and it was fine again until I got home. It may have been an allusion, but it seemed the pipes before the mufflers were nearly red hot.
This morning it started up fine, but I'm not riding it until resolved.
My plan on the weekend it to pull and inspect the plugs, compression and leak down test it, drain the oil, inspect all the electrics etc.
So, can anyone provide any insight or direction re what I should be looking for? I've scanned the forum to see similar issues which include the fuel pressure reg?
Any help will be much appreciated as I want my Bird back on the road!
Cheers
Shedspace
Recently purchased a 2001 Bird which has been awesome.
From purchase, it seemed to be a bit 'fuelly' at idle, but otherwise great. Until yesterday....
Whilst riding home from work, it lost power and progressively lowered its ability to rev. Like it had a reducing rev limiter.
After about 5km's, I couldn't even get it to leave the traffic lights so I pulled over. There are no warning lights at all, and temp, oil pressure etc all fine. 3/4's tank of 98 fuel.
Being new to fuel injection, I did the only thing which come to mind and that was turn it off and restarted it. It fired up fine and presented no issue for another 5kms where it started again. I shut it down whilst coasting, and rolled started it and it was fine again until I got home. It may have been an allusion, but it seemed the pipes before the mufflers were nearly red hot.
This morning it started up fine, but I'm not riding it until resolved.
My plan on the weekend it to pull and inspect the plugs, compression and leak down test it, drain the oil, inspect all the electrics etc.
So, can anyone provide any insight or direction re what I should be looking for? I've scanned the forum to see similar issues which include the fuel pressure reg?
Any help will be much appreciated as I want my Bird back on the road!
Cheers
Shedspace