Problem needs help

[bradleymartin...]

Hi i have a peugeot vivacity 2003 . i know very little about bikes as this is my 1st one , im 17 . It was working ok when i bought it a couple of months ago but then someone pushed it over.

Ever since when im driving it it coughs & splutters & just dies on me. A friend of my dads fixes bikes so i took it to him , he changed the spark plug & cleaned out the carb , worked ok for 5 mins & then probs started again

Too it back , he has now changed the auto choke , but problem is still there.

Hasa anyone got any ideas whatso ever of what it might be , only paid £425 for bike & alreday spent £85 try to repai it but no joy & cant keep paying out & not getting sorted

Thanks in advance

[DERBIXTreme]

not sure on what the problem is but to help those more intelligent than I...

1) How does the engine cough out? You said it coughs and splutters so it's not sudden. Does it lose power, gain a tiny bit of power again then coughs out?

2) Someone pushed over your bike, was it on its side for long or just a moment upside down?

3) Any problems you were aware of before this coughing out started happening? Sure it started when the bike got tipped over or could it be something else that caused this?


Hope this helps! only thing worse than a broken down bike, is a broken down bike 2 miles from home in the rain

[bradleymartin...]

Hi ,i have come in tonight & started the bike again ,it starts ok so i then gave it a ride to see how it goes , i went up to the petrol garage about 1 mile away & it started playing up a little bit, what happens is the bike just loses power .

The revs just die down and the bike dosnt go forward .

So any further ideas would be grateful

Thanks

[andy_uk]

My first guess would be the fuel filter...
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[Gothtec]

Remember fuel, air, spark and compression...

Get those right and it'll run...

You've probably got compression so we'll ignore that...

First check your fuel feeds, blocked hoses, vacuum tap? (this can be a pain), filter change etc... I'd guess your getting too much/little fuel hence your mechanic friend cleaning carbs and changing the choke...

Then Check your air - filter blockage or bad mix... Also if you have a leak in the inlet between the carb and the engine it wouldn't do your mix much good

Then spark, if you get a good spark then you should be OK - although checking the tightness of connections is always good (saved me the other day when my dragstar did the very same thing - turned out I had a loose HT lead and only running on one pot). Pop out the spark plug and place it in the HT lead, then trun the engine over holding the plug against the cylinder head... You should see a nice fat blue spark! PS don't hold it with bare hands make you tingle funny!

If its a 4 stroke, change to oil.... If its a two stroke clean out the exhaust...

If you have spark, fuels flowing and its breathing right it should run fine, ita actually a very simple process that just looks complicated!
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[swampy]

Is it two or four stroke ?
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