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needacar
06-23-2007, 10:24 PM
I have 02 zuma it wouldn't start so i replaced the spark slug and everything was fine after that. I rode it for maybe 100 miles and then it started but wouldn't go then it just cut out and wont start at all. Can i foul up a plug in such a short period of time and what would cause it to happen?

OldGuy1
06-24-2007, 12:37 AM
No insult intended here but was it the correct spark slug, er plug?

That's just the first thing that comes to mind.

StepVino
06-24-2007, 08:03 AM
I have 02 zuma it wouldn't start so i replaced the spark slug and everything was fine after that. I rode it for maybe 100 miles and then it started but wouldn't go then it just cut out and wont start at all. Can i foul up a plug in such a short period of time and what would cause it to happen?

You need to help narrow it down a bit. List all mods, mention anything
that might have happened before the problem started:..I made this or
that mod.. I did nothing, just started fouling plugs one day... It was sitting unused for a while..

needacar
06-24-2007, 09:51 AM
There are no mods just started fouling plugs. Is there a way for the system that puts oil into the engine to have malfunctioned and to be putting to much oil in it?

Axton
06-24-2007, 10:21 AM
The pump may be messed up.?

StepVino
06-24-2007, 10:35 AM
There are no mods just started fouling plugs. Is there a way for the system that puts oil into the engine to have malfunctioned and to be putting to much oil in it?

I doubt it. Is the plug balck and oily, or just black?

I'd check the float and float valve in the carb. Float might
have a hole or crack in it. Can't think of anything else right now.

zoooma
06-24-2007, 11:12 AM
There are no mods just started fouling plugs. Is there a way for the system that puts oil into the engine to have malfunctioned and to be putting to much oil in it?

You would probably be getting a whole lot of smoke out of the tail pipe if that was the case.

mikal
06-24-2007, 12:33 PM
Dirty airfilter?