Spit sputter STINK

[Alan Nicholls]

I'd go through the carbs.  My boat pulled the same stunt memorial day
weekend.  When I pulled the carb, I discovered an insane amount of white
fuzzy oxidation all over.  Little pieces were coming off and slowly plugging
the main jet.  Sometimes they would pass, but it ended up leaving me
stranded in the middle of the lake.

On Jun 13, 2011 10:08 PM, "Don Wilcox" <leanintree at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Before I dig in, I thought I'd ask the assembled... early last week
leaving
> work, the GPZ was giving me a sputter at higher RPM's (but it may have
> attributed to wider throttle opening). I took a couple backroads home and
> spent a little time running it WOT to try and clean up whatever was
causing
> the burble, tossed some Seafoam in on top of new gas and it seemed to
clean
> up within a day. Actually, it seemed like something just came loose, and
it
> just started to run like it should. When it was burbling, there was also a
> heavy gas odor, that polluted the garage bad enough  for the wifey to
> complain about it's presence in the garage.
>
> I rode it all last week, no problem, and on Sunday ran 300 miles of
without
> any real problems. Rode to work this morning just fine, and on the way
home,
> it did it AGAIN. Spit sputter, and STINK. I could smell it at every light,
> and the wifey hollered about the smell in the garage.
>
> So... just off the cuff, what do you folks think? Although it's stinky,
it's
> not hydrolocking (or the cylinders haven't filled up enough), and the oil
> doesn't stink like the last time it hydrolocked from a sticky float.
> Thoughts before I dig in?
>
> Don in GJ
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