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I've got the bike apart with the gas tank on a shop bench and extended vacuum and fuel tubes going to the bike. I'm running it and using the garden hose to just soak everything on the bike and can not make it sputter, fail, burp, hiccup, nothing! Damn onda makes a good bike.

LOL!!! I think you're on to something! Bike, Burgers and life on the road. Wait ... err.. oh yeah... there's the wife and kid. Speaking of the fun governor, I've convinced the Homestead Financial Department the XX is toast, and I need a new bike. Any suggestions?

Rain wins I lost. The Good: Thursday: Bike back together and running great even with stock air filter. Lots of rain predicted for the next 4 days starting tomorrow. Friday: Finaly got off work about 5p. Raining lightly. Got home and put wife on bike for 20+ mile ride in misty to light rain. No problem. Bike running like a hungry tiger! Still raining but we eat at a roadside burger shack under big tree. Start 20 mile trek back home. Me: "Was that a misfire?" Wife: "What?" Me: "Does the engine sound like it's missing?" Wife: "What?" So I gun it and the xx runs like a champ. I take the time to stop and buy Mega Bucks tickets. I could use the 80 mil. Last leg home in rain. Can't see well due to rain and foggy face shield. Bike running great. The Bad: :icon_doh: Saturday: Afternoon solo ride in almost heavy rain. Wife at work. Scattered showers. Looking for down pour to test bike cause "I'm the King of the World"! Give me the rain! Go back to burger shack eat 2 double cheese burgers. Starts to rain heavy so I start riding... towards home. Was that a Misfire? The Ugly: 5 miles from home Bird starts to sputter. 2 miles from home "Houston we've got a problem" 1 mile from home Bird shuts down. And once again (to paraphrase another Bird owner, Obby, with the same problem) "I'm pushing it home like *%&^#* Harley owner. Thats it I'm done. OK p.s. I guess I should add that I pushed it for about a 1/4 mile before I was able to finally get it restarted and was able to ride it home (I had to close the coke to keep the rpms up).

Finally got the bike back up and running. Runs great. Seems to have been a stuck float. Now for the real test to see if runs in the rain after the air filter change. Rain is predicted for tomorrow afternoon and I plan on a long (and chilly) ride.

OK Here's the thing. My tank was off for 3 weeks while I worked on the bike and waited for the stock honda air filter and now I think I have a stuck float or something because: 1) The bike idels rough 2) Gas just pours out of the tee joint between the 1st and 2nd carb 2) After idling gas is in the vacuum hose that goes from the tank to the engine block. Maybe the fuel varnished. Maybe a float is stuck. The fuel diaphram is good because I gravity and vacuum tested it. I just drained the bowls and my next step is to disassemble the carbs and check the floats on the carbs. I hate to do this because the bike was running great before this (except for stalling in the rain). Any ideas? Also the stock filter fits a hell of a lot better than the k&n filter. I'm positive that the k&n filter did not fit on the back side in the air box and allowed water into the carbs which stalled the bike.

Did not take the carbs off. The leak is at the tee connector between the carbs.

OK Got a question. I've got the stock air filter and I put the gas tank back on today when I run it either the gas leaks out of the hose to the left carbs or, if I turn the fuel flow valve the other way (what appears to be off) the bike runs out of gas. what have I hooked up wrong?

I thought that too. So I've gotten the engine hot then hosed the engine to create steam under the bike while soaking the rest of the bike too and even after 20 minutes or so it never even burped. how do you do the test wire on the ignition? Do you know any Brit sites off hand?

I hope so because my next step is to replace all the vacuum hoses. I'll let you know.

Wow. I'm glad to hear that. I was startting to worry that not might solve it since no one else had this problem with k & N.

Upon further review. How about K & N filter leads to carb icing?

I think i know the answer! I know I'm gonna get alotta flack for saying this but I think the problem is the K & N AIR FILTER. I know 1 million bikers use em but.. It's the only solution that explains all the sympyoms. so I ordered a stock Honda filter today (32 bones). It'll be here in 5 days then I'll wait / pray for rain. props for helping Flitemdic, Obby, Sokanaxx, Lois, Tomek, Canadian Bird and Bandit XX

I've shot quite a lot of water from below into the engine compartment. I only have a side stand because of my pipe so I've wondered if it needs to sit upright when I do this. And when you take it apart, check the angle of the air intakes. Make sure they are in the absolute correct position, and not out of place AT ALL. You shouldn't be able to get them, or any part of the air intake out of place, but if they are, water will- over a longer ride, maybe even a shorter ride- pool in the low spot of the intake and then the engine is sucking in that water that collects on a gradual basis, just enough to mess up your fuel mix and stall the bike. I'll recheck the airbox.

I thought the same thing. I've actualy used the water hose to shoot water from below up both the air intake vents and even after about twenty minutes of this it wouldn't stall. Right now I've got the tank off an will pul the air box tomorrow.

I usually can wait a few minutes and it will start back up depending on how rainy it is. But once I start riding it will die again. The lights keep working. It will crank but not start.