400-4 starting problems.

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Finally, somebody's found a use for offal.

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Plugs was all it needed. New set and it started first time. I don't
suppose it helped that the old ones seemed to have been set to almost
twice the recommended gap...

 

Well, that wouldn't have helped, but it's still odd that the plugs
would appear to have "gone off".

Funny things, motorbikes, aren't they.

 

I'm guessing that the old 'stale fuel in carbs' may have been a
contributory factor too. Certainly took a mile or three before it
started to accelerate cleanly through the rev range - initially was
hestitating at around 6k, refusing to pull past it a couple of times.
Once it was cleared out it was running as sweetly as I could ask for.

Aye, they are that.

 

I've had something similar in the past. The foulest tempered and most
reluctant machine becomes sweetness and light simply by changing the
(newish) plugs.

As you say, odd.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

It's happened to me a couple of times - all four plugs going dud at
once. It's a fairly common thing on LPG engines, largely because the
plugs tend to get left in for utterly ages and then fail after some
ridiculously long time.

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