Hello all I am looking for some help with my 1999 Husky 610 SM. I have recently serviced the bike (the usual, oil, plugs clearances etc) and also took out carb and gave it a good clean. I have been out on it for short journeys and everything seemed fine but today I had to get somewhere in a hurry so I took the Husky on the motorway which is where the problems started! At full throttle the engine would suddenly cough and splutter (as if it was being starved of fuel) and sometimes cut out. If it cut out I was able to bump start but sometimes it would stay running. \Either way it would cough and splutter for a bit before running ok. After a few minutes it would do it again! I managed to nurse it home and noticed that at less than full throttle it seemed ok. I have checked the obvious like fuel lines, fuel tap, tang transfer valve (fully open) and all seemed fine. Any help or guidance from anyone would be greatly appreciated.
I took my TE 250 (now Athena'd to 300) for a short ride one day. Coming back I leaned the bike pretty far over and as I accelerated it coughed and spit just like you're describing and I thought I was going to run out of gas. It cleared itself fairly quickly and didn't happen again. I drained all the gas out of the tank and put in new gas and so far so good. George (Up-tite) said the same thing to me....water in the gas.
Are you running fuel filters? If so then clean them. I would say you have a blockage somewhere in your emulsion tubes. Its the long brass tube in your carb with heaps of holes in it. You need to take all the jets and tubes out and give them a full clean out. Stu
