GS's--you can have a garage full--but not just one

[glib]

Well not really but it helps if you want to ride often.

My ESD is running well.

My ED is competing for craziest woman in the house. Two weeks ago it was running smooth as silk. I have kept Sea Foam in the tank. Today it started with the choke but idled rough as if the carbs were clogged all over again. Wouldn't run without the choke. I set the petcock on prime to make sure there was fuel in the bowls but no effect. Then, oddly, I discovered it would run better if it leaned to the right and worse if it leaned to the left. What do you think about that?

(Tank is 3/4 full)

[glib]

OK, never mind. I was reading the post "Choke issue" by Meriban and decided to let it "prime" for 30 seconds prior to starting and it fired right up and ran fine. I thought switching to prime while it was idling would make a difference previously but I guess it just didn't have time to fill the bowls that way. Still not sure why it ran better leaning to the right with low bowls though.

[wymple]

That's why we name our machines after women.........

[glib]

UPDATE: Good grief. I had a kink in the fuel hose just behind the petcock. The hose was too long. So I cut the hose and eliminated the kink. The symptoms persisted. I checked the petcock operation--no fuel in the on or reserve position. Just about to order a new petcock when I noticed that when removing the fuel line to cut it, I had accidentally pushed off the petcock vacuum line. Put it back and what do you know, all is well. Talk about a comedy of errors!

[mrbill5491]

It happens.

[Dogma]

LOL, but in sympathy. Check the stuff you "know" is right, because it isn't.

[robertbarr]

Yeah, as a rule, when a problem crops up, check whatever you most recently 'improved'.