hard start when warm

[Gsebring]

Hard starting meaning-
1- motor cranks over freely with no fire
2- motor cranks slow with no fire
3- motor cranks and hit and miss to stall when started.

just trying to narrow down possibilities.

[wmh9680]

Hard starting meaning-
1- motor cranks over freely with no fire
2- motor cranks slow with no fire
3- motor cranks and hit and miss to stall when started.

just trying to narrow down possibilities.

Cranks freely with no hit. I just went out for about 3 hrs and temp was about 90 and came home and shut her down and she started right up and again 15 minutes later. Whether it was the topping off or not I will not do it again. Hard to teach old dogs new tricks. Thanks, everyone. Hope it is a thing in the past. Thanks again, Mike

[BLUEKNIGHT911]

I see you are in Florida. I bought the bike from a guy in Tampa last year.

What does the canister do? Is it an EPA think. I always removed the EPA stuff on all 3 of my Yamaha viragos since it just made it run worse.

anyone hear ever remove one? Thanks, Mike

Like I said in my post #23 .... the 1330 is designed different and it can't become contaminated from gas overflow ....the hose system was re-routed .... vapors can rise but GAS will not ............Mike

[Buckeye Chuck 54]

June 13th of 2014, with 1 mile on it, the salesman, Vinnie, told me to not "top off the tank". But then he added maybe not, he wasn't sure if this problem was fixed with the '14's. It was a problem with previous RT models. I have ridden this bike lots of miles and do most of maintenance work. But I don't know where this canister is. The dealer where I bought it says they've replaced several canisters. But I'm cheap and don't want to leave the bike away from home if I can do it myself. Besides, any day my Spyder isn't here, I don't get to ride.
I am getting surging also when the engine is cold. Maybe this canister cleansing will fix this too?
Thanks to all.
Hey Joe, want to come over to help? I know your '13 RT-L is much different, but it's still fun getting your hands dirty, and under that tupperware it is.
Buckeye Chuck 54
#4036

And yet you do it anyway.

Once the fuel gets into the vapor canister, you're screwed.
It then needs to be cleaned out or replaced.

Another symptom of that is unstable idle and surging at constant throttle.

[wmh9680]

Thanks, She seems to be run good now.

[Bob Denman]

Glad to hear that this mystery appears to have healed itself.

[wmh9680]

It's better to be lucky than good I've heard