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Longmont Co, Flooding
J.ellwanger:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=492CIvBZMI8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DROpPDNDpY
22yrs in Colorado, never seen this before, also
had to be the dumb one and ride my not so legal K5 from Frederick to Longmont, about 30 min drive under normal conditions, took me an hour and a half, cutting back, farm roads that were not washed out, avoiding cops,
and National Guard, hitting several deep spots where the water was to my knees riding the bike,
Finally I got to Longmont, almost got to where i needed to be, hit another flooded road, started going down the road, got a little more than half when i found the part that submerged the bike completely... before i got it shut off, it sucked water in, oops!!! :x :roll: but i knew it was part of the deal stepping out like that during flooding.
got it pulled apart, and drained all the water, but no carb cleaner, so i couldn't get the small spots.
but managed to start the bike with OUT the carb... (and oddly it didn't run away!!!) just idled, for about 3-4 secs.
reason i tell this is because now I'm curious to know if there is any MAJOR stuff to be worried about... checking the oil tomorrow, to see if anything got inside it, and its probably time for a change. but i got the water out, its fired and ran, shortly,
motopunk:
oh oh this flood looks real bad.. :|
the old cz-engines and my old 2000 gasgas ec300 had all a drainplug under the crank . for the case of flooding .. 2 times it was very useful for me in enduro-races with water-rides ...opened the drain-plugs at crank an carb .looking for water in the exhaust some kicks without sparkplug to bring the big amount of waterdrops out and i could ride again after 15 minutes ... many guys there had the bikes turned upside-down for water-draining out of the sparkplug hole..looked a little bit funny :-).
in case of riding in water is important that the water-level stays lower than airbox . so the engine sucks nothing ... :-D
J.ellwanger:
yeah, it screwed up all of north Colorado, roads are gone, parks are destroyed, there was a in ground pool that has disappeared, snack bar and all, chunk of land that it sat on is gone. semi trailers logged under bridges, 40 ft trees logged into foot brides where there is usually 15' of clearance under neath it. during the rush of it you could see 8*8*6 slabs of concrete TUMBLING in the river... :-o :-o :|
and cool, i thought it was just draining water out, but few friends and I could not get it started,
pulled the spark plug, pulled the exhaust off, pulled the carb, dumped everything, dried the plug, and could not get it, I'm gonna pull carb again tomorrow and hit it with carb cleaner. and few other details, not sure what exactly, probably do more than needed... because I'm OCD or some weird disease those doctors came up with.
motopunk:
it needs only one big waterdrop on the sparkplug-electrode , that it canīt ignite the gas in the cylinder...
make also sure that your ignition system is 100% dry ...
J.ellwanger:
yeah. i have pulled everything, air filter, spark plug, exhaust, gas tank, Carb, air box ruber boot,
Air Filter: still full of water, rang it out, dried, re oiled,
Spark Plug: water down golden ring, (jetting is good) cleaned and dried,
kicked the engine over several times as well with plug in boot, against head to avoid ruining the system,
Exhaust: drained.
Gas tank: emptied, to check for water in the gas.
Carb: Pulled apart, sprayed,
Air Box: thoroughly cleaned as i had an 1/8 inch of dirt in the bottom, now looks new, pulled the rubber boot, and cleaned the crap out of it.
all back together, got it started, forgot to take the choke off, running real rough, had a hard time getting it to get moving then it just died. now i cant get it started, like the plug isn't even firing, hmmm
moving on to the mentioned Ignition system... how did i miss that? cant just get spark from nowhere. going to check that now!
also i was able to get one pic. then phone found rain, now no pics... kcuf
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