So this is weird.
I took the new (old) Bandit in for a Safety Certification so I can change the ownership. My appointment was set for 9am yesterday but the roads became covered from the hail storm that came thru an hour earlier so I lost my time slot. Irrespective, I rode the bike carefully for the 3 km distance at about 10am. So all good.
I got a call from the mechanic later in the afternoon who told me the bike checked out fine but that he tried to start it and it flooded. No big deal so I got dropped off by my wife at the shop to pay the bill and get it home. Well it cranked over but would not start and the smell of fuel was obvious so it remained badly flooded. I was worried that the exhaust was filling with raw fuel so I stopped cranking it over. This was near their 6pm closing time so the bike stayed in the shop overnight.
So I am heading over there this morning with my tool box to yank the plugs out to replace them and hopefully fire it up to get it home. I will order up four carb kits and get the carbs apart for rebuild but I still need to ask how it flooded so bad.
Any ideas?
I took the new (old) Bandit in for a Safety Certification so I can change the ownership. My appointment was set for 9am yesterday but the roads became covered from the hail storm that came thru an hour earlier so I lost my time slot. Irrespective, I rode the bike carefully for the 3 km distance at about 10am. So all good.
I got a call from the mechanic later in the afternoon who told me the bike checked out fine but that he tried to start it and it flooded. No big deal so I got dropped off by my wife at the shop to pay the bill and get it home. Well it cranked over but would not start and the smell of fuel was obvious so it remained badly flooded. I was worried that the exhaust was filling with raw fuel so I stopped cranking it over. This was near their 6pm closing time so the bike stayed in the shop overnight.
So I am heading over there this morning with my tool box to yank the plugs out to replace them and hopefully fire it up to get it home. I will order up four carb kits and get the carbs apart for rebuild but I still need to ask how it flooded so bad.
Any ideas?