Oakie
27th May 2007, 17:59
Mrs Oakie's EL250 has some strange habits:
Sometimes hard to start and will sometimes run on only one cylinder for a wee while at start up before bursting into double cylindered life. When it has run on one cylinder we are rewarded with a pretty impressive display of white smoke from the exhaust. It usually only does it's single cylinder bike impression for about 20 seconds but yesterday it ran on one cylinder for about 3 minutes before normal service was resumed.
Once it is running, it runs really well except that when hot, it won't idle for long. It'll idle away for various periods of time (from 5 to 30 seconds) and then over a period of about 7 to 10 seconds the revs drop and it dies.
Maybe relevant, may not be but there's a surprising amount of gunk that comes out of the wee drain hole thing under the exhaust at start up. Quite a watery/oily looking mixture but I think the oily looking stuff may just be carbon as it washes off under a tap where I'd imagine that oil would tend to stick.
I have a few ideas but I'm not worthy to be a even mechanic's asshole so do you folk have any ideas?
Sometimes hard to start and will sometimes run on only one cylinder for a wee while at start up before bursting into double cylindered life. When it has run on one cylinder we are rewarded with a pretty impressive display of white smoke from the exhaust. It usually only does it's single cylinder bike impression for about 20 seconds but yesterday it ran on one cylinder for about 3 minutes before normal service was resumed.
Once it is running, it runs really well except that when hot, it won't idle for long. It'll idle away for various periods of time (from 5 to 30 seconds) and then over a period of about 7 to 10 seconds the revs drop and it dies.
Maybe relevant, may not be but there's a surprising amount of gunk that comes out of the wee drain hole thing under the exhaust at start up. Quite a watery/oily looking mixture but I think the oily looking stuff may just be carbon as it washes off under a tap where I'd imagine that oil would tend to stick.
I have a few ideas but I'm not worthy to be a even mechanic's asshole so do you folk have any ideas?