Evening all,
Bought my girlfriend a 2000 GS for her first bike. After around a week, the bike started showing some symptoms. When giving throttle, sometimes the throttle would "stick", and sit at 4k rpm....i checked the throttle cable, all is good. Checked the throttle assembly, all fine.
Girlfriend crashed (lost control in the corner), and i finally got around to fixing the bike because shes on crutches for a few months.
Heres what i did.
- Put new fuel in.
- Checked for air leaks around carbs.
- Cleaned the float bowl of both carbs with carb cleaner, blew the jets through, cleaned the bowl.
- I did NOT check if the carbs are balanced.
Ive reinstalled the whole thing, and realized now that one cylinder was much warmer than the other. So, ive unplugged the spark plug lead from the right cylinder, and the bike continues running just the same as it did. If i unplug the right lead, the bike cut out.
Ive checked for spark in both leads, its present.
Ive swapped the 2 spark plugs around, same story.
What could have caused this?
Im going to go swap the leads around now, see if that makes a difference, and if not, what are my next steps?
Its really annoying me. If anyone can help, all advice will be really appreciated.