Skorp submarine

[andy230]

I got a bit of exercise on Friday night, by pushing the Skorpion for the last mile and a half of my return journey.

Of course, this was mostly uphill…!

It started stuttering, prompting me to flick onto reserve.  As soon as I did, it would no longer run.  It would start and die, but I couldn’t ride it.

Saturday I drained the carb(s).  Plenty of droplets of water in there!  Cheered, I pumped out the tank.  Of the 4.5 litres or so at the bottom, about 10% was water.

No wonder it didn’t want to move!

Just thought it may be of use if your skorp starts playing up for no good reason.  Mine sits outside all day when I’m at work, and the cap has never been great.  Lots of heavy rain over the last few months.  The drain hole is clear, but I have found I have to do this every few years.

Cheers all,

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[Steve H]

Mine filled with water too. When I looked in the tank it looked like a load of jelly fish floating around.  I think I removed the cap and re-sealed it.

[SRXer]

Does that not damage the piston/con rod/crank?

[Steffan]

Mine did that once on the M4 west of Swansea. I found I was able to ride it with the choke on but when ever I blip the throttle it would stall. Made it to M&P and headed home and eventually with perseverance it cleared and I then put a considerable amount of clean fuel through the system via the throttle. To say I thrapped the old girl is an understatement. Clearly she has learned her lesson as she hasn't done it since. Also I use dry fuel in the tank - in Oz you would use meths but I am not convince it works at such low temperature that we experience over here.

Steffan

[002]

Mine did that once on the M4 west of Swansea. I found I was able to ride it with the choke on but when ever I blip the throttle it would stall. Made it to M&P and headed home and eventually with perseverance it cleared and I then put a considerable amount of clean fuel through the system via the throttle. To say I thrapped the old girl is an understatement. Clearly she has learned her lesson as she hasn't done it since. Also I use dry fuel in the tank - in Oz you would use meths but I am not convince it works at such low temperature that we experience over here.

Steffan

Better off drinking the Meths......its better than Richards Vodka !!!!!

Jethro

[themoudie]

Aye, Herman the MZ used to play that trick and I assumed condensation from standing and also a blocked overflow pipe.

Took the foot pump with the lilo ('plastic doll') inflator attachment fitted, inserted it in the overflow. A single sharp depression gave rise to a flatulent noise from the end of the pipe and an evil smelling gunge deposited in the drip tray.

Clean the overflow regular and drain the carbies afore laying up for more than a week or two. If really worried use some meths or that 'de-watering' additive for outboard motor fuel. That removes the 'jelly fish'!

Ta ra, Bill.

[andy230]

I have used meths in the past.

Clearly there was too much water in there for the half cup of meths I put in!

Evil smelling gunge??  You want to see what I sucked out of the Scimitar's washer hoses last weekend!  Long black wurrums of the stuff!!  Skooshers are happy now.  Much better to suck it out (using a vac pump), I could never have forced inches and inches of crap thru the wee holes, burning out the lecky motor!!

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[andy230]

Does that not damage the piston/con rod/crank?

Nope, wouldn't have made too much difference.  Just stopped it running!  Dmaged my pride is all!!

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