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My GPZ is defo not liking the cold one singal bit!!
she keeps stalling unless I warm her up for about 30mins before I ride her, I have been given some stuff to put in with the petrol which seemed to work for a couple of days but now is back to normal and stalling again.
Anyone have any ideas? should I cover the rad a bit to help the bike getting cooled down so quickly?
Is it a carbed bike? Could be the carb icing in the cold - I think its Silkolene who sell something to help with this, meant to be pretty good.
yer (and yes is a carbed bike) thats the stuff I have bought… like I say worked wounders for a couple of days, but now seems to be back stalling, although there is no instructions on the bottle, but the bloke selling it said 1% into the fuel so not sure if I’m just not putting enough in.
Kwaks are known for carb icing so keep up with the additive.
If the pro FST works, try using surgical spirit at the same concentration - way cheaper than the Silkolene stuff and works just as well (I use it in my ZX-9R)
Reading this I’m really glad I held out until I could afford a used fuel-injected model! No choke either, it just warms itself up and then settles down while you put your all your cold weather gear on… now if only it had shaft drive, too.
thanks for the input guys.
quick question what would happen if i put to much of the FST in? I’m not talking about loads I just mean it says 1-2% on the site what would happen if a little more went in?
PUPPY - yer I was speaking to the guy in the bike shop about this he was saying they started using heated carb things which got rid of the problem…
if its only a littl bit more than recomended then shouldn’t cause any problems, try using surgical spirts like gurniman suggested a lot cheaper than pro fst and all old kwaks do it and some newer models do it as well
In the 80’s there was a recall of all liquid cooled Kawasakis due to carb icing. Jackie got kicked off her GTR 1000 due to carb icing and was not alone.
On the recall they routed coolant through the carbs to warm them up. There should be small hoses leading into the carbs. If not, your bike was probably not recalled.
Of course this does not affect air cooled GPZs
