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97 Yamaha YZF 1000 R Thunderace discussion forum:RE: running slugish |
| RE: running slugish |
| Aceinthehole said 2004-05-11 04:09 |
| To get to the plugs you only need to remove the upper side fairings. after you pull them just follow the plug wires. I am trying to remember, I am at work so I don´t have the ability to look in my tool box, but I believe its a 17mm plug socket. When you run up to your local yamaha shop to buy the plugs, be sure to ask and buy one. The trick is, you can´t have your ratchet in the socket, there isn´t enough space to get it in there. Drop the socket into the plug hole, then snap the ratchet into it. Its tight, you will only get 1/4 turns on the center plugs, but keep working and you´ll get them. Just for the heck of it, you say you were running 165 at the time sounds like you were getting on it pretty good, when was the last time you changed your air filter, has it ever been changed? If not, its probably a good idea to start there, your air intake is under the gas tank, all the road grime, dirt and dust that gets pushed through the radiator by the cooling fans tends to sit ontop of the motor, you get out on the expressway and get the bike moving that fast and get it all stirred up and it ends up clung to your air filter. Also they age, your fairings are designed so that they pressurized the engine compartment to a certain extent forcing air into the air box... a good fast ride that builds pressure could rush through the air filter and start breaking off fragments of a badly aged one, they have nowhere to go but into the carbs. Also, this being May, I assume you just got the bike out of cold storage for spring? If so, did you put a stabilizer in the fuel? Where was the bike parked for the winter? In a shed or barn? You may want start at the air filter...last year at this time I got my bike out for spring...took a ride up the road for the first time, now I keep my bike in my barn over the winter... the bike started fine, and ran great, for about 5 miles, I got it out on the open roads and got on the bike a bit...and it started spitting and sputtering, acted like it was loading up. I assumed the fuel had gelled and it would clean its self out, I put some carb cleaner in the tank, nothing worked. I figured I´d have to pull the carbs and clean them...I jerked the tank off, and pulled the bread box, when i picked it up off the bike it rattled, so I took the top off of it to find that a mouse had built itself one heck of a nest in my bread box...shreaded paper,Hay, Dry Dog food, pieces of an old pack of cigarettes I had left under the seat,ETC....when I got the bike moving enough that it actually started sucking air, it pulled all of that garbage to the air filter and clogged it up....the bike was starving for air. I cleaned it all out, the bike ran perfect. I also manufactured a screen from chicken wire to cover the intake holes to keep the mice from doing it again. Let me know if the plugs and air filter don´t make it stop running sluggish, it could very well be your EXUP out of adjustment or something like that, if you have never adjusted that, take a few hours and do it, you won´t regret it. |
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