Re: 83 KZ 650 Died...Please Help

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 02:20:42 -0700, solo33 wrote:

> I seem to be following Krusty around this page today.
>
> My recent postings have been because I was trying to fire up an engine
> on 100% diesel delivered by my wife after running out of fuel near home.
>
> Your symptoms are reminiscent of how my bike might have sounded on, say,
> a 70% diesel/petrol ratio after refuelling a partially empty tank.
>
> I know that normal, intelligent people cannot make this sort of mistake,
> but its worth considering!!

Quite correct. Back in 1990 I bought a used S-10 pickup. After having
owned it a couple of months my dad used it and filled it for me at the
local grain elevator/farm supply store that also delivered fuel to the
farm and had a gas pump. It was around Christmas so I went out the next
morning to start it as I had some errands to run. I couldn't get it
started and running for love or money.

After about a half hour of trying to get it going and finally getting it
to run after a fashion, dear dad told me he had refueled it. Well, I
sputtered and coughed my way over there and learned the rest of the story.
It seems the guy that normally took care of the gas pumps was on vacation
so the job fell to one of the drunks on duty (seriously). He started
filling the tank and noticed after about 100 gallons in a 300 gallon tank
that he was pumping diesel. So, rather than tell anyone, he merely
stopped pumping and continued with unleaded.

They were quite nervous to learn I was having problems and offered to pay
for any repairs. I think that turned out to be a hidden blessing as the
unburned diesel ran into the crankcase and cleaned that engine out so well
that I think I got an extra 100,000 miles out of it.

Right now the truck is sitting nearly 15 years later with 210,000 miles on
the clock, but has no low end power even though I rebuilt the carb last
week. I plan to do a compression test, but I'm not optimistic. The rest
of the truck is nearly shot so I may just have to salvage it. In all
those miles it never left me stranded.

To the OP, look for bad gas. Do you have an inline filter? Make sure
it's not plugged. If there is no filter then you may need to make sure
the screen in the tank isn't plugged (if it's still there) or that crud
hasn't gotten into your carbs and plugged them. It's frustrating. At
least the last time I had this happen on my 650 I had really run out of
gas, but the idiot light didn't tell the idiot who wasn't using the trip
odometer as he does now. :-)

- Nate >>

--

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds,
the pessimist fears this is true."

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