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Wet Plug

Started by Troyskie, November 11, 2017, 11:12:12 PM

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Troyskie

Effie has shown me a wet plug today.

:yahoo: NEW PROJECT!











Poor Effie  :empathy:












:mocking:
1984 FJ1100 Ms Effie brand new :)
1984 FJ1100 Pearlie, stock as.
1985 FJ1100 Mr Effie 647,000K and still running hard.
1985 FJ1200 'Yummy' takes a licking & keeps on ticking
2013 Trumpy Tiger 800, let's do another lap of Oz

After all is said and done, more is said than done :)

Sparky84

I've been chasing one of those too, #4.
It'd start and run but #4 wasn't firing, stone cold header, wet when taken out.
Dry it, put it back in then it fires!
It happened twice, both after bike was not used for a month   :sorry:

Still in the process of finding the problem, now that's another project.  :wacko2:
Let me know when you have an answer  :good:

Cheers Alan
1984 FJ1100
1979 Kawasaki Z1300
1972 Honda CB750/4 K2

Troyskie

Already know Al,

It is #2. Compression is down to 80.
#1 better but messy plug.
# 3 black, sooty but dry, 85 comp.
Didn't bother to check #4

Smells like a diesel.

I think I've gots me a top-end rebuild  :biggrin:.

After so many years, and not being original owner, I think I give her a boob job.

Yummy is purring like a kitten & just begging for me to use her,not Effie
1984 FJ1100 Ms Effie brand new :)
1984 FJ1100 Pearlie, stock as.
1985 FJ1100 Mr Effie 647,000K and still running hard.
1985 FJ1200 'Yummy' takes a licking & keeps on ticking
2013 Trumpy Tiger 800, let's do another lap of Oz

After all is said and done, more is said than done :)

balky1

Quote from: Sparky84 on November 12, 2017, 12:34:56 AM
I've been chasing one of those too, #4.
It'd start and run but #4 wasn't firing, stone cold header, wet when taken out.
Dry it, put it back in then it fires!
It happened twice, both after bike was not used for a month   :sorry:

Still in the process of finding the problem, now that's another project.  :wacko2:
Let me know when you have an answer  :good:

Cheers Alan

I had a similar problem except my cylinder would start working after engine got warm. It was a bad spark plug. Funny thing is, I still have the original NGKs that were put in in the factory and those are all still working, but the newer ones that I installed 2 years ago are malfunctioning.


FJ 1100, 1985, sold
FJR 1300, 2009

aviationfred

I'm not the fastest FJ rider, I am 'half-fast', the fastest slow guy....

Current
2008 VFR800 RC46 Vtec
1996 VFR750 RC36/2
1990 FJ1300 (1297cc) Casper
1990 VFR750 RC36/1 Minnie
1989 FJ1200 Lazarus, the Streetfighter Project
1985 VF500F RC31 Interceptor

fj1289


Troyskie

Quote from: aviationfred on November 12, 2017, 05:36:18 AM
A teaser read as a cure for Effie's ill's

http://www.fjowners.com/index.php?topic=14834.0

Fred

I enjoyed reading that.

I learned a lot from what you did, and applied much of that to Yummy, except she is still in Ambulance livery  :biggrin:
1984 FJ1100 Ms Effie brand new :)
1984 FJ1100 Pearlie, stock as.
1985 FJ1100 Mr Effie 647,000K and still running hard.
1985 FJ1200 'Yummy' takes a licking & keeps on ticking
2013 Trumpy Tiger 800, let's do another lap of Oz

After all is said and done, more is said than done :)