So we had a pretty bad rainstorm today. Was pouring down rain from about 6am until now. Unfortunately, my bike got left outside in it in front of my apartment. I went out to bring it inside since the rain had stopped, started her up, and noticed the engine was sounding a little rough. I shut her off, started back up again, but she didn't start easily and was still running rough. So I shut her off again, and she never started back up. Just sat there turning over without a single fire. I'm thinking my fuel tank may be saturated with too much water. Any ideas?

 

Put some HEET or RXP in the tank and maybe drain some fuel by disconnecting the fuel line to the TB's. Just squeeze on the tabs and pull. Be careful, the fuel maybe under pressure if you attempted to start the bike recently. Get a small container to catch the fuel and turn on the key momentarily to pump the fuel. Watch out, it's under pressure and may splash. Connect the fuel line and try starting it. If you can't get it started, try spraying a little bit of starting fluid in the intake.

 

Just a thought, is it posable that enough water got into the air-box, and saturated it. I am just speculating 'cause the angle of the dangle is too close to the trickle of the dickle. I can only guess that if enough water was blown in it not let any air in. when I was a kid my dad taught me to always start with the three thing you need to make an engine run: air, fuel, and spark, if all those check out then dig deeper. I'm not trying to be a turd just imparting word from the wise.

 

The airbox on these have a water drain so I doubt it. I also forgot to mention to check your fuel filler drain and vent line to see that it isn't pinched or clogged. If it is, the water will collect around the filler cap and see into your tank.

 

Ok, got the bike running after working on it all day. Turns out there was about 2/3 of a gallon of water inside the tank. After an excessive amount of draining and verifying that the tank was without as much water as possible, I started cranking again... then the battery died. Hooked it up to my car battery and started cranking again... finally some magic started happening as I heard a cylinder or two fire. A minute later and she was alive again! After revving it a bit and letting it warm up, the exhaust started spitting water and enormous amount of steam (aparently my exhaust was full of water as well). After a few minutes of that, she was all back to normal. It turns out my overflow line was pinched by the way.

Also, just so the rest of you know, any water that gets into the key hole goes directly into the fuel tank.

 

Glad to hear you got it running.

 

Thanks for the info DC. Glad that you got it running as well.