My motorcycle is burning oil and has no power. It has been sitting for a year and the carb is clean and everything is great, whats wrong with it?
This is probably a generic problem. The bike set for a year and the rings are stuck. The rings, cylinder and maybe a valve or two are rusted due to condensation.
Did you replace the plugs? (Cables)
Maybe that is the problem with the power.
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What is the compression on the cylinder compared to the other cylinders? It should be within 10%. Some causes can be - as you suggested - the valve stem seals. Also, the sleeve could be rusted, as the valves could have been open on that cylinder. Generally speaking, on a 4-cylinder motor 1 cylinder has both its valves closed, 1 has both open, 1 has an inlet valve open and one has an exhaust valve open at any given time. Another possibility is that the valve could be sticky - try Wynn's Valve Ease or a similar product.
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Pull one of the fuel hoses off of it's carburetor, and stick the end in a clean can or bottle. Turn on the fuel tap--you should get a thin stream of fuel. If it just drips, you need to clean the filter screen just above the fuel tap bowl. Hope that gets you running well.
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I would try checking the rubber between the carb and motor for air leaks,and/or spray carb cleaner through while running with the air box open.
Hope this helps.
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There is a vaccum fuel valve, that shuts off the fuel when not running, if that line has a crack or leak it will not let fuel into the carb.
The only thing I can think of w/o more info
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Possibly yes; also may be a coil issue too. I had seen this same issue some time back with an older KZ650, in the end it was a coil. By stroke of luck working with the carbs put the wires back as required.
I hope this may have helped,
Tom
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it only has 1700 miles why is it burning oil?
a week ago it kept jumping between having power and not having power. like it was glitching almost. would that help narrow down a solution?
If you have power and then not have power at any given time, its probably electronic like bad wires or an coil trying to short out. If it does it when it is wet outside or when the humidity is high, then the spark plug wires are probably bad or a spark plug wire is lose. If the damp/high humidity seems to cause the intermitant power, spray all the spark plug wires completely with wd-40 and if it power resumes then the spark plug wires are bad. Take the spark plug wire and pull on the ends lightly and see if they come off and if so the ends are lose and can cause that kind of problem. Also the spark plug wires could be arcing against the engine.
if the fuel filter was bad what would that effect?
If the fuel filter was really bad, it would affect the entire power band so it would not be on/off power as stated. If the fuel filter is mostly plugged it would affect the mid to upper power range according to how plugged it was. A really plugged up fuel filter would allow the engine to be boggy in most of the power ranges from idle upward.
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