Carburettor issues

[veggiebikerdude]

Hi, folks. I've recently bought a low mileage 2001 Black Panther, which has an intermittent fuelling problem. It's slow to start when cold, then runs fine for half an hour or so. After this is starts back-firing, and coughs and splutters to a dead stop. It will only restart on full choke, and will run for half a mile and die again. It feels like it's fuel starved, and it took me 45 minutes to get back home the other day; a distance of 12 miles!! Any ideas as to why, and possible cures? The bike was standing for 6 months before I bought it, but the tank is clean inside. I'm loathe to strip the carbs as a first step. Any constructive help will be most welcome.

[keithcross]

It sounds like residue from evaporated fuel in the carbs to me, only solution is to take the carbs off a clean the jets out. A good carb cleaner might work, but this has to be able to get rhough the carbs to work. Also check there isnt a blocked fuel filter some where (the bike comes with one in the fule tank).
Best of luck and please let us know what you find.

Keith

[veggiebikerdude]

thanks, Keith. I was wondering about that. I didn't know there was a fuel filter in the tank, though. Thanks for that. I'll let you know how I get on! *fingers crossed*

[DAVID THOMPSON]

hello
My RT125 took a fit last summer on the way back from AMA VMD
in central ohio
and it was a bad load of fuel took 2 rinse sessions to get it
running ok

the stuff in the tank and carb was almost like lamp oil
or kerosene and boy it did not want to run on it
it would run with choke on at idle but any thing else was no go