SV650S hates the cold weather :(

butt?

mh

 

Ron has a dyno doesn't he ? From what I've read there's a few guys who
think he has a clue (i have no personal experience with him). Given how
many modified bikes I've seen him taking credit for, if you paid him
money to fix it and it's not fixed go back and say "hey man it's still
doing the same shit, can I leave it here for two days and come back and
find it fixed ?"

JL

 

I paid him for a major service and to put in a jet kit, the cold weather
problems were there before(put in just a main jet back then), and still
there, i should have been more persistent in getting this fixed back
then, don't think i explained the probelem properly to him. I'm taking
it back to him on saturday to have it looked at, hopefully he'll fix it,
whatever it is.

 

Will do Agg!

 

big snippo


did you try www.svdownunder.com the aussie sv forum?

slej
yellow peril

remove teeth to reply

 

Tried that, didn't work

 

Getting worse ...so it may not be a carb icing issue if the problem is shifting.

 

Carburettors 101.

The vapourising fuel absorbs heat from the surroundings. A carby can
get quite cool, and some designs are prone to icing up. Although I
wonder what the freezing point of PULP is.

Moike

 

It's not the fuel which freezes, its the water in the air passing
through. Thus "icing up" rather than "frozen petrolling up".

Now, personally I have my doubts about this whole theory, since
frankly it's not real cold this time of year even in Melbourne.
What it _is_ in the evenings is moist ... humid days leading
on to foggy nights. And moisture plays havoc with all kinds
of electrical things, especially high voltage ones and grotty
terminals. It might be worth checking out the condition of
the spark plug caps and leads and coils, the connectors to the
CDI units and even the kill switch wiring.

And, if that doesn't work, check and see that the ducktail isn't
full of water! (Hi Hammo!)

-----sharks

 

Technically, Sharkey, "ice" can refer to the solid form of any substance
which exists in fluid form under laboratory conditions, hence the
methane_ice_polar caps on Titan and the water_ice_crust on Europa.

The rest of the sabre you used to eviscerate Moike's point is spot on,
though.

 

AFAICS, it's not the peterol that freezes and builds up.
The carbies get so cold that moisture in the air on it's
way into the throat condenses, freezes and builds up. It's
a *major* issue with carburettored small aircraft engines
in particular, and the aviation biz spends a lot of time and
effort on avoiding ice buildup on carburettors[1] and dealing
with it if it does happen.

Can't say I've ever heard of icing being an issue on bikes
before today though.

G
[1] Ice forms on carbies and prevents them from properly
carby-ing. In appropriate (inappropriate?) conditions,
it will also form on wings (and even propellors!) and
prevent them from doing things like, oh, flying...

 

Personally, I feel this is an incorrect usage: I'd prefer
"solid methane polar caps" just as I'd rather the Tritonians
didn't refer to our atmosphere as "nitrogen steam".

But then the Yanks still do things in miles and inches, so
my personal opinions on the advancement of science aren't
really persuasive (even on Usenet!)

-----sharks

PS: http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/pdfs/fueltable.pdf suggests
that 'gasoline' freezes at -40°C.

 

That would be the point at which it becomes solid, wouldn't it?

 

But... But... my ZRX doesn't _have_ a de-icing system... that's only on the
euro versions!

G-S

 

Let's leave Christians out of this.

Theo

 

better not go down the GOR then

 

Its in the workshop right now, Ron's gonna buzz me tomorrow and give me
an update.........it used to play up in <10c, now its getting
worse.....can't wait to get this fixed.

 

I threw the question of carby ice up in the aus.aviation
newsgroup last night - if anyone's gonna know about ice, it
will be those folks.

True to form, there's quite a number of informative and
potentially useful responses. Concensus seems to be that
yes, carby ice *is* an entirely likely culprit.

The thread is titled "carby ice at sea level (or thereabouts)..."

-or- google groups: http://evilurl.com/VAGINABURGERBOOB


Personal favourite: this quote from RT:

RT> Yes, you can get carby ice.
RT> You get it on the ground, you pull into the nearest pub.
RT> You get it in the air, you crash into the nearest pub.


HTH,

G

 

Not in summer, anyway. Those minibuses are _fierce_ ...

-----sharks never forget

 

Are you talking about the K-Tric? The Kawasaki Throttle Response something
something?

Coz that's not a de-icer

The de-icer is a seperate thing...


G-S