jimmyparko

Well ive had the exhaust off and still no joy. I was speaking to a friend today and ran him through my problem and he suggested it could be a sheered reed petal so i stripped it down and low and behold not 1 but 2 sheered reed petals. I have ordered some from a local dealer today so fingers crossed the Sherco should be up and running again by the weekend..

Hi Alan Thanks for the reply i've already had the carb fully stripped down and cleaned out if i dont get any joy tomorrow i will do it again and give it a blast with carb cleaner as i only washed it out with hot water and then petrol Regards Jimmy

Thanks for the reply folks I got the Sherco stripped down and all dryed out with the help of the wifes Hair dryer. While i was at it i give everything a good clean up and changed the Trans Oil. The bike is now back together but still cuts out when i give it a fist full of throttle and it is also a Pig to start. I can get the revs up to full throttle if i gently run it up slowly but when i give it a big hand full it just dies on me also i get smoke coming out of the air filter. I believe the problem to be a plugged exhaust as when i taken the sliencer off it started first kick every time i couldn't mess about with it too much as i live in a quiet close and it sounded like we were being bombarded with gun fire ha ha.. The bike revved up a bit better but sounded like it was gonna cut out so i hit the kill switch. I'm going to take the bike somewhere remote tomorrow and give it a blast without the sliencer to see how she goes. Does the Plugged exhaust sound about right or is there something alse i need to be looking at Cheers guys i will let you know how i get on tomorrow Jimmy

Hi I'm new to the site and need a bit of help I recently bought a 2003 Sherco 200cc and today on my second outing whilst riding through what i thought was a shallow river i suddenly hit a deep part submerging my bike for around 40 seconds, needless to say the engine cut out. Once back on dry land i tried kicking it off and had no joy. After draining the Exhaust Air Filter and removing the Spark plug and kicking it over i thought we be able to fire it up again but no such luck After a couple of hrs tinkering we managed to fire it up but when i applied more throttle is seemed to bog down as though it was starved of air or fuel and cut out i removed the air filter and changed the fuel and and after a while iwe managed to get it running again but it still seemed starved of fuel or air. I managed to ride it back to the car which was about 1/4 mile away on low throttle and coughing and spluttering along. I'm just after some ideas as to what i need to do now i.e what parts to strip down and where else they may be water trapped.. and the final big question HAVE I COMPLETLEY BUGGERED MY BIKE or will it be back to working order in no time???? Cheers Jimmy