Greetings all!
I had about a 1/4 tank of Honda HP2 still left before dumping more gas with Blud premix on top. Bike fired off fine, got down the road and fouled a plug. Swapped plug, got down road, same thing happened. It's got 7 hours on it and is jetted 175/48 with some drippage out the silencer, nothing excessive but this is the first time I've every fouled a plug and wondering if it's because of using old gas/combining 2 different kinds of premix. Both mixed 32:1 with 93 E-free gas. Thanks for your input
Edit - Ok the 2nd plug wasn't gummed up, still clean as a whistle, so I drained the fuel, put in fresh gas with the blud-premix only and it fired up, didn't bog, I let it warm up, rev the piss outta it and rode it up the street and back so it should be fine. Both times it started to slowly bog/lose power before dying, wanting to start again, I am wondering if the gas was just old.
Probably old gas more so than mixed oils. In the future, however, it's a better practice to drain or run out your old fuel before adding a new premix. Sometimes the two oils don't play well together.
Update - yep! it was definitely the old gas. Running like a rocket again with the fresh gas.
Here is a picture of my silencer after a day of riding. I've heard mixed opinions on over-jetting these things. Mine is jetted 175/48, which was a hair off of the stock jetting. I've had lots of people tell me they regret jetting too lean and having to deal with piston damage later when its rebuild time. Obviously engines like oil, and this thing fires on the first kick and never bogs!
What fuel and ratio are you running? Were you getting this same level of spooge with the HP2?
Yes sir. It was worse with the 927, seemed to clear up a bit when I to the HP2/Blud, I'm running 32:1 with E-Free 93.
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