I have been having a problem for a few years now. The bike has not been ridden much and did not get the attention it needed while in storage. since I am starting to ride it again, I would like this taken care of.
it started out as I would cross deeper water. (around 2 ft deep) would be running fine and suddenly would act like it was out of fuel and die.
Drag it out of the water and let it dry. it would fire up and run again. aced like a flooded engine that just needed enough time for the plug to dry up.
the problem gradually got worse.
most recently I hit a puddle (maybe a couple inches deep) at speed on a field access road. lost all power coming out the other side and felt like it was going to die. I stayed on the throttle and it cleared itself and ran fine. I spent the rest of that ride dodging puddles to avoid the issue.
my first thought was maybe bad spark plug wire or connection at the coil. water getting on it causing it to ground out, no spark or no good spark fouling the plug leaving it dead in the water. Since I started looking into it I see the coil is up pretty high so I am a bit surprised if it would be a connection there. could a could the plug wire be in that bad of shape that it could be grounding out the way I am thinking just from a puddle?
Also it is just out of storage, I have not been in the water with it yet as everything here is good and frozen, but when warm it has started backfiring (only seems to be when you let off the throttle completely) this is furthering my thinking that there is a spark issue. as the current plug is showing more rich than lean. (old plug tho...)
first plan is to get a new plug and wire(I believe the wire is original and owes me nothing), but I am curious if anybody else has been through this type of an issue. Mine is a 2002 Trailblazer 250
it started out as I would cross deeper water. (around 2 ft deep) would be running fine and suddenly would act like it was out of fuel and die.
Drag it out of the water and let it dry. it would fire up and run again. aced like a flooded engine that just needed enough time for the plug to dry up.
the problem gradually got worse.
most recently I hit a puddle (maybe a couple inches deep) at speed on a field access road. lost all power coming out the other side and felt like it was going to die. I stayed on the throttle and it cleared itself and ran fine. I spent the rest of that ride dodging puddles to avoid the issue.
my first thought was maybe bad spark plug wire or connection at the coil. water getting on it causing it to ground out, no spark or no good spark fouling the plug leaving it dead in the water. Since I started looking into it I see the coil is up pretty high so I am a bit surprised if it would be a connection there. could a could the plug wire be in that bad of shape that it could be grounding out the way I am thinking just from a puddle?
Also it is just out of storage, I have not been in the water with it yet as everything here is good and frozen, but when warm it has started backfiring (only seems to be when you let off the throttle completely) this is furthering my thinking that there is a spark issue. as the current plug is showing more rich than lean. (old plug tho...)
first plan is to get a new plug and wire(I believe the wire is original and owes me nothing), but I am curious if anybody else has been through this type of an issue. Mine is a 2002 Trailblazer 250
