Or...

If there's anyone that's able to measure the thickness of the 1300GT oil cooler, I can then compare that to mine.

Many thanks if anyone ever gets round to it!

Idiots like me would still fit the triangle into the square hole.

I've no idea how I managed it - the nozzle fit into the tank with no problems at all.

Good news though - the bike passed it's MOT yesterday, so went for a good ride afterwards, all working fine. And feeling strangely lubricated (the bike, not me.... I don't drink & ride!)

Chris Canning wins this one...

I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that it must've been diesel... despite me not wanting to admit such stupidity. The bike is now running, and running well.

GS-911 showed no faults, so I kept cranking (with appropriate breaks to let things cool down). I drained and recharged the battery twice, but in the end it did fire up. Ran rough at first, and slowly cleared up over the next 10 mins or so. LOTS of white smoke out the back (diesel in the exhaust burning up). Now idles purring like a tiger, as it should.

For anyone who manages to do this in the future: the fuel pipe and injector rail holds a lot of fuel - I guess about 150ml (as I managed about 1.5 miles after my fill up). It takes a lot of cranking on the starter to clear that, but I feel it's the best way to clear it. The alternative is to dismantle half the bike to get to the injectors - it's an airbox off job to get to them otherwise. And when you do get the bike running, watch out for diesel in the exhaust catching fire. With hindsight, when it first fired I should have taken the end can off and cleaned the diesel out of the lowest point of the exhaust system. Luckily, my exhaust valve, O2 sensor and cat all seem to have survived intact (this time...).

The big clues on this one were that the bike stopped shortly after a fill up, and that it died completely, and quickly (rather than running rough on a few cylinders and gradually getting worse). Also that there was no petrol smell from the exhaust when cranking the engine.

Many thanks to everyone here - it's really useful to have a knowledgeable sounding board for my random theories!


Steve

Hi everyone!

My K13S came out of hibernation last week.

I'd drained the tank before putting it away (in 2019!) as much as I could.

Got it out to go to MOT last week - replaced the battery, and it fired up just fine. I let it idle for a couple of minutes, rode it up and down the drive a few times, no problem, all feels good. As it had very little fuel, I went straight to the petrol station, and managed to fit in 16L of the high octane stuff (and it's a 19 litre tank, so there was around 3 litres of old fuel in there.

Set off towards the MOT place, but I only got another mile and a half before it lost all power at 60mph, and coasted to a stop. Now, the engine turns over OK, but doesn't fire up.

It was at this stage I discovered my old (10 yrs old!) GS-911 has stopped working.... (new fangled wi-fi one arrives tomorrow!) Until it arrives, I'm stuck with guessing and trying to work out logically what's happened. So far, I've replaced the fuel pump, and tested it. I've tried bypassing the fuel pump controller too - still doesn't start. I've taken an air filter off and sprayed carb cleaner in whilst cranking the engine over - it did fire up temporarily, so I think I've narrowed this down to a fuel problem.

I was thinking it might be crud from the tank blocking up the injectors, but I think that would cause 1 or 2 cylinders to misfire - what I got was a complete lack of power, rather than rough running, so it's something that has affected all 4 cylinders at once.


Any ideas, anyone?

Cheers

Steve

Drum - I had that scenario, although I was going forward out of my drive. Saw the cyclist instantly, but he was about 10 ft away going fast. I managed to stop my car about halfway over the pavement, he braked as hard as he could but ended up with his back wheel off the ground, so he lost directional control. His front wheel hit my bonnet, he went over the top of it. As I got out the car to help him, he picked up his bike and cycled off without a word.

Concerned that he'd later try it on with the police, I went to them first to ask if it needed to be reported. The nice officer I spoke to said it was 100% the cyclists fault, as there's no way I could be expected to account for a speeding cyclist on the footpath. Had it been a pedestrian or a runner, both he and I would have been able to stop in time.

Back to the original post - the driver of the Subaru is actually the chairman of the Subaru International Drivers Club - the posts on their website supporting their man are comical - they just can't see what a (insert your favourite expletive here) he is.

You didn’t say how much fuel you put in either from my and others friends experience you will get away with around a gallon of diesel in an otherwise full tank with some coughing and spluttering any more than that and your in deep doo doo 

And for you guys who have never tried these K’s will not run on a flat battery,as luck would have it had a mate with me who managed to find one 50 miles outside of St Malo.

So, before fuelling I had about 30 miles range, and I filled it.

Just after some ideas please, folks.

The title says it all really, but here's the longer version:

Last year, touring through Spain I was forced to leave my K13S (2014 model) out in some heavy rain, all night long.
The next morning, it worked perfectly when I started it up. We rode 3/4 mile to a petrol station and filled up.

About 2 miles after leaving the petrol station, there was a momentary glitch in the throttle - halfway round a corner it just lost power for half a second, then recovered.

Over the next 5 miles, the throttle glitch got progressively worse, with throttle response becoming more of an on or off affair, especially at part throttle. Eventually the bike stalled halfway up a mountain and wouldn't restart (ie it turned over OK but wouldn't run - definitely not the 'Hot start' problem).

I freewheeled back down the mountain 2 miles to a village, where I could take a proper look at it. My first thought was the throttle sensor, so disconnected the battery and went through the TPS reset process (open throttle wide 3 times etc).

Nothing I tried helped - so after 10 mins or so I stopped trying to start the bike for fear of flattening the battery.

20 mins later, prompted by the imminent arrival of a massive thunderstorm, I thought I'd give it one last try. The bike worked perfectly from that point onwards. Current theory on this is that the run after the petrol station got enough heat into the engine to warm up whatever was causing the problem - it just took a while to do so.


So, does anyone have any theories about where I should be looking for the culprit on this one? Obviously, TPS is still a suspect, and will be waterproofed as much as I can when I find it. Could it be anything else?

Thanks for any ideas.


Steve