<div dir="ltr">This exact thing happened to me. I fixed it in the same way.  I was in a neighborhood well know for drug dealing.  <div><br></div><div>I was on my way to the TA rally in Sommers where someone ran out of gas and we ate a pizza. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 12:36 PM Tracy Cerrato via Tanx <<a href="mailto:tanx@lists.micapeak.com">tanx@lists.micapeak.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">A bit of TA advice from Herm...<br><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">Hermann Kasper <<a href="mailto:hermannkasper@hotmail.com" target="_blank">hermannkasper@hotmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>TA --- vacuum hose leak.</b><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">October 15, 2020 at 8:08:51 PM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">Tracy Cerrato <<a href="mailto:tcrrto@comcast.net" target="_blank">tcrrto@comcast.net</a>><br></span></div><br><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Hi Tracy---</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">The following might be of interested to TA owners. Care to send  it out?</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Today I was on a ride , when the engine started to stutter --again. This had happened before, but it always recovered. <br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Fiddling with the fuel petcock ( ON /RES ) had helped in the past. </span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span>I thought I might have a partial blockage in the petcock and had planned to take it apart-- as soon as practical (= an almost empty tank.)</span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span>This time fiddling did not help. </span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span>I rolled to a stop.</span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span> </span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">I also was considering an Ignition module failure  . ( I always do carry<span> </span><u>2<span> </span></u>spare modules on the bike! <span id="gmail-m_4239876085797333909😉">😉 )</span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span><br></span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span>Stranded on the road side , I was just about to install the new modules , when I decided to check the petcock first.</span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span><br></span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span>Long story short: </span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span><br></span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span>the vacuum hose to the carb  had a small tear (= air leak )  very close to one end , thus intermittently shutting off the fuel ! </span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span><br></span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span>I cut off the end (about 10mm)</span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span><br></span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span>Luckily--the hose was still long enough to function. </span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span><br></span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span><br></span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span>After that , the engine ran fine again. <span id="gmail-m_4239876085797333909👍">👍</span></span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span><span><br></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span><span><br></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span><br></span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span>Tomorrow I will get a new vac  hose for the carb!<span id="gmail-m_4239876085797333909😊">😊</span></span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span><span><br></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span><span>(After all-- that piece of rubber hose was 31 yrs old!!)</span></span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span><span><br></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span><span>Herm</span></span></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Adam Novitt</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>