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jftoast · 06-17-2009, 12:25 PM

I have a Suzuki GS500F and I have had it for about a year now and nothing has ever gone wrong with it till now. I just started it this morning and was about to ride to work when it cut off as soon as I accelerated. It will start fine and idle fine but as soon as I accelerate it will shut off. If anyone has any ideas what it could be I would appreciate it.

longride · 06-17-2009, 12:53 PM

Does it cut out instantly, or kind of just slowly die?

jftoast · 06-17-2009, 12:59 PM

Instantly when i accelerate.

MOKE1K · 06-17-2009, 01:03 PM

Do you lose lights on your gauges? Or does it just die out?

jftoast · 06-17-2009, 01:09 PM

the lights on the guages come on

jftoast · 06-17-2009, 01:33 PM

Just went outside for a little while to see if i could figure it out and now it is having trouble starting and will cut off after a few seconds of it being on.

pushrod · 06-17-2009, 02:23 PM

JFT,

Hard to tell from your description, but as hot as it is, you may be having a fueling problem.

Have you been riding it consistently, or has it sat for a while? Try taking off the gas cap while you listen. If it blows or sucks when you break the seal, you might have a tank vent issue, and are either overpressurizing the carbs, or starving them.

You might have water in the fuel, and it may have collected in the tank and the bowls.

Or, you may have what an old VW did to me years back. The damn thing would die every time I tried to go faster (It was a '66. 'Accelerate' is not the right word.) I finally found a wire (a coil lead, IIRC) that had rubbed a bare spot, that would swing back against a bolt head when I hit the throttle, and it would kill the spark.

HTH!

jftoast · 06-17-2009, 03:23 PM

I ride it every day so it hasn't sat. I just put motor treatment in it so maybe that will help if the carb jet is clogged.

MOKE1K · 06-18-2009, 05:45 AM

motor treatment? Something sounds clogged.

06-17-2009, 12:25 PM	#1
jftoast Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Niceville, Florida Posts: 9	Motorcycle Help Plz I have a Suzuki GS500F and I have had it for about a year now and nothing has ever gone wrong with it till now. I just started it this morning and was about to ride to work when it cut off as soon as I accelerated. It will start fine and idle fine but as soon as I accelerate it will shut off. If anyone has any ideas what it could be I would appreciate it.

06-17-2009, 12:53 PM	#2
longride Super Duper Mod Man Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Anywhere they let me Posts: 10,484	Does it cut out instantly, or kind of just slowly die? __________________ I'm a knucklehead

06-17-2009, 01:03 PM	#4
MOKE1K Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Kalapana, Big Island Posts: 3,956	Do you lose lights on your gauges? Or does it just die out? __________________ "YOU CAN'T BOLT ON SKILL" "The only thing limiting your bike, is you" We survived Bush you'll survive Obama! "the most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive." --thomas sowell

06-17-2009, 02:23 PM	#7
pushrod Founding Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Baja 'Bama Posts: 3,478	JFT, Hard to tell from your description, but as hot as it is, you may be having a fueling problem. Have you been riding it consistently, or has it sat for a while? Try taking off the gas cap while you listen. If it blows or sucks when you break the seal, you might have a tank vent issue, and are either overpressurizing the carbs, or starving them. You might have water in the fuel, and it may have collected in the tank and the bowls. Or, you may have what an old VW did to me years back. The damn thing would die every time I tried to go faster (It was a '66. 'Accelerate' is not the right word.) I finally found a wire (a coil lead, IIRC) that had rubbed a bare spot, that would swing back against a bolt head when I hit the throttle, and it would kill the spark. HTH! __________________ You would not understand, this is not how I am... I have become - Comfortably Numb.

06-18-2009, 05:45 AM	#9
MOKE1K Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Kalapana, Big Island Posts: 3,956	motor treatment? Something sounds clogged. __________________ "YOU CAN'T BOLT ON SKILL" "The only thing limiting your bike, is you" We survived Bush you'll survive Obama! "the most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive." --thomas sowell

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06-17-2009, 12:59 PM	#3
jftoast Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Niceville, Florida Posts: 9	Instantly when i accelerate.

06-17-2009, 01:09 PM	#5
jftoast Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Niceville, Florida Posts: 9	the lights on the guages come on

06-17-2009, 01:33 PM	#6
jftoast Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Niceville, Florida Posts: 9	Just went outside for a little while to see if i could figure it out and now it is having trouble starting and will cut off after a few seconds of it being on.

06-17-2009, 03:23 PM	#8
jftoast Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Niceville, Florida Posts: 9	I ride it every day so it hasn't sat. I just put motor treatment in it so maybe that will help if the carb jet is clogged.