Spit sputter STINK

[Charles Scappaticci]

I've had my WR450 carb apart twice in the past four days and can't get
it to idle properly because of this crappy gas they sell nowadays.  It
too had a white film inside the float bowl and I'm sure it is the
culprit.

Charles S.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Alan Nicholls <metrogtiguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd go through the carbs.  My boat pulled the same stunt memorial day
> weekend.  When I pulled the carb, I discovered an insane amount of white
> fuzzy oxidation all over.  Little pieces were coming off and slowly plugging
> the main jet.  Sometimes they would pass, but it ended up leaving me
> stranded in the middle of the lake.
>
> On Jun 13, 2011 10:08 PM, "Don Wilcox" <leanintree at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Before I dig in, I thought I'd ask the assembled... early last week
> leaving
>> work, the GPZ was giving me a sputter at higher RPM's (but it may have
>> attributed to wider throttle opening). I took a couple backroads home and
>> spent a little time running it WOT to try and clean up whatever was
> causing
>> the burble, tossed some Seafoam in on top of new gas and it seemed to
> clean
>> up within a day. Actually, it seemed like something just came loose, and
> it
>> just started to run like it should. When it was burbling, there was also a
>> heavy gas odor, that polluted the garage bad enough  for the wifey to
>> complain about it's presence in the garage.
>>
>> I rode it all last week, no problem, and on Sunday ran 300 miles of
> without
>> any real problems. Rode to work this morning just fine, and on the way
> home,
>> it did it AGAIN. Spit sputter, and STINK. I could smell it at every light,
>> and the wifey hollered about the smell in the garage.
>>
>> So... just off the cuff, what do you folks think? Although it's stinky,
> it's
>> not hydrolocking (or the cylinders haven't filled up enough), and the oil
>> doesn't stink like the last time it hydrolocked from a sticky float.
>> Thoughts before I dig in?
>>
>> Don in GJ
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