Hydro-lock on the Gix 1k

[HondaRider22]

Ok, so, I was prepping my bike today for the track day coming up. T-minus 1.5 days till take-off...
After Changing plastics, oil, tires, spark plugs, and safety wiring everything, I had just a couple of things left to do.
One of which was to change out my gas tank to a "track ready", you could say, tank. So after I swapped out the fuel pump and gas cap and fill it with gas, I put the tank on the bike, plugged in all the hoses and electrical connector.
Go to start it and it doesn't start. Just turns over and over. Kind of weird since Sean did the same exact thing on his bike with no problems.
So I am attempting to start it again and all the sudden the engine just dead stops. First thought, other that WTF, was a hydro-lock.
A hydro-lock is when the combustion chamber, normally filled with a gas-air mixture, is completely fill with gas, and so the piston rises up and compresses against the fluid, and has nowhere to go. Thus stopping the turning motor dead stop.
Now I’m thinking how in the heck could this happen?!?! I still don’t know haha.
So I pulled out the spark plugs and sure enough discover that the left cylinder was completely fill with gas, so I turned the bike on and started it with out the gas tank and spark plugs, fire extinguisher near at hand :D, and blow out all the gas out of the cylinder and dried off the spark plug.
So I put everything back and it starts and runs fine. Go figure huh…


Can’t wait till Sunday!

Lets all do a sacrifice to the rain Gods and ask them to take a vacation this weekend :P

[BioHazard]

Why did it flood in the first place?

[HondaRider22]

I have no Idea! I think the fuel injector must have malfunctioned or something, it puzzles me...

[Philo]

Ahhh that's nothing. When I was a young lad I had to flip a dirtbike upside down and pump gas, oil, and coolant out of the cylinder/crankcase with the damn kickstarter for 30 minutes. Only then to foul 3 plugs before she fired. This was outside at night by myself using a flashlight.

And it was snowing. :rolleyes:

[Bryant]

Ok, so, I was prepping my bike today for the track day coming up. T-minus 1.5 days till take-off...
After Changing plastics, oil, tires, spark plugs, and safety wiring everything, I had just a couple of things left to do.
One of which was to change out my gas tank to a "track ready", you could say, tank. So after I swapped out the fuel pump and gas cap and fill it with gas, I put the tank on the bike, plugged in all the hoses and electrical connector.
Go to start it and it doesn't start. Just turns over and over. Kind of weird since Sean did the same exact thing on his bike with no problems.
So I am attempting to start it again and all the sudden the engine just dead stops. First thought, other that WTF, was a hydro-lock.
A hydro-lock is when the combustion chamber, normally filled with a gas-air mixture, is completely fill with gas, and so the piston rises up and compresses against the fluid, and has nowhere to go. Thus stopping the turning motor dead stop.
Now I’m thinking how in the heck could this happen?!?! I still don’t know haha.
So I pulled out the spark plugs and sure enough discover that the left cylinder was completely fill with gas, so I turned the bike on and started it with out the gas tank and spark plugs, fire extinguisher near at hand :D, and blow out all the gas out of the cylinder and dried off the spark plug.
So I put everything back and it starts and runs fine. Go figure huh…


Can’t wait till Sunday!

Lets all do a sacrifice to the rain Gods and ask them to take a vacation this weekend :P

I thought I saw a pic of your bike laying on its left side on the floor of your garage with you and the Sean-meister taking photos with it in that position for some time? Mebbe that's how it got flooded and hydro-locked?

Something similar happened to a friend's SV650 when it was laying on its side for a while... engine just hydro-locked.. we just let the bike sit for about 2 days and we started it up without a problem after that.

Me... praying to the rain gods to take the weekend off!. :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

[Bart]

Ahhh that's nothing. When I was a young lad I had to flip a dirtbike upside down and pump gas, oil, and coolant out of the cylinder/crankcase with the damn kickstarter for 30 minutes. Only then to foul 3 plugs before she fired. This was outside at night by myself using a flashlight.

And it was snowing. :rolleyes:

And uphill both ways. Barefoot. :razz:

[Arnold_R1]

I thought I saw a pic of your bike laying on its left side on the floor of your garage with you and the Sean-meister taking photos with it in that position for some time? Mebbe that's how it got flooded and hydro-locked?

Something similar happened to a friend's SV650 when it was laying on its side for a while... engine just hydro-locked.. we just let the bike sit for about 2 days and we started it up without a problem after that.

Me... praying to the rain gods to take the weekend off!. :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

I agree Mike, it had to of happen when you guys were trying to "Moto GP" :slap:

[r1metalhead]

and then the #1 spark plug committed suicide...