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Posted by Aimee.L
- July 05, 2017, 22:26:18 PMActually now that you say that I think I remember reading the same in the manual. I don't fill it into the neck but I fill it close. So possibly except for I made it much more than a few miles both times. 80ish miles the first time and 60ish miles the second time. It's just about due for valve check so I'm gonna send it in and have them tasks a peek at it as well as pick up some seafoam and see where I'm at.
Thanks a bunch, I knew I could count on this forum for plenty of info. ❤
Posted by 2beers
- July 05, 2017, 19:33:42 PMWhen we got our first Drifter, the PO made a point of telling us not to 'overfill' the tank at the gas pump (blocking the filler neck vent). He said it would stall without notice after about 3 miles if we did. Hope the answer to your stalling issue is this easy!
--The Bride
Posted by Aimee.L
- July 04, 2017, 16:05:30 PMAwesome, will try. Thanks. 
Posted by CDNRatMan
- July 04, 2017, 16:01:06 PMAlso add 2 "glug"s of seafoam and go for a ride and see what happens, if there is any dirt or such in the system this should clean it up.
Posted by Aimee.L
- July 04, 2017, 12:42:50 PMMakes sense. I'll check the hose as well and keep my progress updated. ☺
Posted by Troll
- July 04, 2017, 12:03:44 PMFuel tank vent/hoses. With a gravity feed system, if the tank doesn't vent to the atmosphere, the fuel will eventually pull a vacuum in the tank and that will cause the engine to stop running. I had this exact thing happen to me when I first got my W-650. Fuel tank vent hose was kinked under the tank. Found that and it hasn't happened again since 2009
Posted by Aimee.L
- July 04, 2017, 10:42:46 AMI was pretty convinced it was some kind of fuel issue but now that you mention the kill switch I remember it acting finicky like a loose connection or just going bad. I'll try checking there first. Thanks
Usually I do pretty good detective work, lol. If I can replicate the problem. Right now im at that annoying stage of its happend but not quite enough to narrow it down.
Also for the other info:
The previous owner traded it in in May and I bought it within a week of it arriving at my husbands work so I'm not sure about his winter storage but judging by his meticulous service records he turned in with the bike I imagine he probably stored it properly. I'll work down the fuel system list after I get the kill switch checked and/or replaced and I'll update this post as I go. Thanks again.
Posted by Tfrank59
- July 04, 2017, 10:02:21 AMWell it sounds like a fuel starvation problem. If you can rule out everything electrical like Killswitch and so forth then must be a fuel/air issue there, perhaps something as simple as gas tank vent being clogged. Or it could be a fuel filter that's clogged or possibly some gunk in your carburetor clogging the Jets I don't know but a little more information about for example how long has the bike been sitting, did you winterize it, have you run some fuel system cleaner through it, changed the air cleaner stuff like that. You're going to have to be sort of a detective eliminating things like that one by one and let us know what you learn along the way.
Posted by Aimee.L
- July 04, 2017, 09:52:28 AMSo it's only happened twice since May and I haven't figured out how to replicate the problem yet. While riding down the road (once on side road and once on the higway) the engine just stalled with little to no symptoms beforehand. I pull over it doesn't start back up first try but usually after a min it will start and run fine. This second time on the highway it happened a couple times and then once off the highway it didn't happen again. But I did the same exact trip 2 days before with no problems. So I'm having a hard time figuring it out because the situation seems different every time it happens.