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I will check that out next time I get motivated to do something with it. What would clog it so quick? Crappy gas? Foreign object in the tank (where ever it may have come from)?

you should be able to pull the hose off your petcock and turn it on and the gas should flow freely from it.


leon

Could also open the float bowl drain screw to see whether fuel flows and keeps flowing freely from the bowl. As this assures flow from inside tank on through everything and into the float bowl.

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Hey guys...haven't been on lately. I pulled the gas tank yesterday and after a few minutes of checking the "little things", discovered that the problem (hopefully the only one) is a clogged/faulty fuel filter. Got a couple on the way from Z1, but am hoping to find one locally so I can ride and test it out tomorrow.

cool glad it was something simple
my gpz had a lawnmower filter on it when I got it. it was completely clogged ran to the autoparts store put another on just like it and rode for the day

ramtough_63 wrote: cool glad it was something simple
my gpz had a lawnmower filter on it when I got it. it was completely clogged ran to the autoparts store put another on just like it and rode for the day

I got a John Deere shop down the street from me. Maybe they will have a temp until I get the Z1 parts

The in-line filter should be gravity free-flow design.

A non-motorcycle in-line filter might require a slight fuel pressure to begin the flow through the filter, which may be an issue on a gravity-fed system.

If a new in-line filter is fitted, would test it for the ability to free-flow gravity-fed fuel.

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Picked up a mower filter from WalMart. It has good fuel flow, but I still ran into the same issue. I'm going to try swapping out new plugs next time I feel like pulling the tank off and working on it. Hopefully I just gunked them up a bit...

Ok...pulled the carbs today and decided not to tear them down when I realized I had plenty of gas in all four bowls. I swapped out the mower filter for one of the good ones I got from Z1. Put it all back together and ran fine until I got on to go for a test ride. Still dropping cylinders. I also pulled all the spark plugs and they looked fine. My guess is the Dyna-S again...failing when the bike warms up. Thoughts?

clutch wrote: Ok...pulled the carbs today and decided not to tear them down when I realized I had plenty of gas in all four bowls. I swapped out the mower filter for one of the good ones I got from Z1. Put it all back together and ran fine until I got on to go for a test ride. Still dropping cylinders. I also pulled all the spark plugs and they looked fine. My guess is the Dyna-S again...failing when the bike warms up. Thoughts?

I cant remember if I suggested this already but here it goes

got my bike fired up with a new battery ran good cold get about a mile waway bam run on 2 cylinders
let it cool off run fine for maybe a mile maybe all day. had to kick start everywhere I went so I condemmed the voltage regulator put a new one in it same problem only didnt have to kick start

had them do a load test on my battery it was bad under a load. replaced battery all was fine
rode several short trips no problems.

got on it a little going out the highway get off the highwway sitting at a stop light take off drop 2 cylinders and wouldnt pull a sick whore off the pot. had to feather the throttle to get it to run.

on the side of a busy rd I get it running lift the tank grab the wire loom it picks up and is running fine. shut it off pull the tank completely off and cant find anything wrong so I grabbed the coil wires where they plug into the double female (with single male)and it wasnt a good tight fit. pushed it in as good as I could road 10 miles to my brothers shop crimped the end 500 miles later and no problems

Sorry for such a long story I would quadruple check the coil wires into the harness when mine would get hot it would expand enough to cause it to act up even though visually it was connected.
and of course have your battery load tested

ramtough_63 wrote: Sorry for such a long story I would quadruple check the coil wires into the harness when mine would get hot it would expand enough to cause it to act up even though visually it was connected.
and of course have your battery load tested

No need to apologize. Lots of good info. You may be spot on about the battery. It is roughly 3 years old, and the last 2 days I messed with the bike I drained the battery trying to restart the bike after it died. I put it on the trickle charger overnight and it worked fine for a couple starts the next day before draining again. I've been considering upgrading the battery anyway, but can you guys refresh my memory of the lead acid vs AGM, vs lithium iron batteries. I would definitely like a sealed, but am leaning more toward AGM than lithium iron due to cost.

EDIT: I rechecked my wiring connections when hot and they all were snug, so I don't think that's the issue...

I bought an AGM from batteries plus 2 year replacement waranty Xtreme power or something like that I saw in one of OMR's pics he has the same battery.

It hasen't seen a battery tender and I have stressed it alot rewiring and the like no problems yet it's less than a year old but I recommend it 90 bucks I think