bad gas ?

I thought I'd gotten everything working on my SR500 until today. I'd
drained the tank and had the old flaking liner removed and a new one,
hopefully impervious to gasohol, put in. That took about two weeks. I
poured the gas back in and went for a 20 mile ride and everything was
fine.

Today I fired it up and got about a block. It missed, sputtered, and
died. Gas is getting to the carb fine. Compression is fine. There's a
filter in the tank and an inline filter in the gas line (which I replaced
just to be safe).

It'll run anywhere from 5 seconds to a minute or so, but the result is
still some missing and sputtering, a halfhearted backfire or two, and it
dies.

Could the gas have gone bad in two weeks? Come to think of it, that's
two weeks plus however long it was in the tank before I drained it and my
aged memory isn't that good. So I guess the question is do the symptoms
sound like bad gas?

If so, I'll drain and replace. If not, it's back to tearing down the
carb again - sigh.

 

No. An engine will start and run on really old gas, but it stinks like
hell.

You would notice pinging under load if you were riding uphill in too
high a gear, because the volatile fractions that cool combustion have
evaporated.

It's either plugged up jets and passages in the carb or a bad
electrical conection in the ignition system.

 

Very, very, very unlikely.

 

Well, maybe it's a dead Jamie in the air box?

 

Oh, how we laughed.

No, it's just another piece of your laughably errant technical "adice".

 

Fuel is FINE. Do a italian tune-up(sea foam) and replace the plug on
principal then go for a ride...run it dry or close to it and top off
at a gas station(put in another bottle of sea foam). OH and FFS ignor
krusty that guy couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the in structions
were printed on teh bottom.

 

Indeed.

 

How stupid can you get?

Oh, wait. You're Goatse Keith.

Stupid is as stupid does.

 

Well it would be impossible for ME to get as stupid as a intentionally
ignorant and stupid inDUHvidual as yourself. I'm just as stupid as the
average Nobel prize winner.

guess again...i'm the guy you are so scared of you avoid the state he
lives in...remember.

Yep and you are one stupid thing...never changing brake fluid in 20+
years. Can't get much stupider than that.

 

You're terminally stupid and you don't have any retarded friends to
hang out with.

Go back to hanging out with the alpacas.

Or shoot yourself.

You won't be missed.

 

Stop projecting your life issues onto me...

No, think I'll havng around the house. Work on the fencing, futz with
some detail work on the project bikes, order parts for one of them.

Did already shot a whole pot of coffee, had a bit of chocolate
cheescake for brekkies with the wife.

Oh I will be...because ain't nobody good enough to hit me with
anything not even weak ass comments from a closet homosexual who has
NEVER owned or ridden motorcycles and LIES about owning/riding or
having any first hand experience with them. Hell you don't even change
brake fluid you silly silly misanthropic butt sniffer.


as always your lord and master.

 

You're finally learning to prioritize your life to solve your own
problems.

That's a beginning, but not the final solution.

 

naw I'd just rather be at work than the house.

Nope I am YOUR final solution...I'm just in no hurry to dispose of
you. Probally all those lazy irish genes.