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Athame57:
Everytime it seems I give my CB400F2 a really good wash down, it's done without a hose, I seem to get starting issues followed by running on less than one piston at least for awhile, today she behaved so like an old man I rode her home again. Is there any issue on these bikes thats notorious for this and what to do?

Bryanj:
Plug caps and leads short out when very wet

Nurse Julie:
I managed to get home the last 2 miles firing on just 1 cylinder when I got caught out in a deluge last year.... 4 cylinders in light drizzle, 3 in moderate rain, 2 in a downpour and 1 in a full on deluge. Never mind, I didn't have to walk home, good old Hettie.

Athame57:

--- Quote from: Nurse Julie on March 15, 2020, 01:55:54 PM ---I managed to get home the last 2 miles firing on just 1 cylinder when I got caught out in a deluge last year.... 4 cylinders in light drizzle, 3 in moderate rain, 2 in a downpour and 1 in a full on deluge. Never mind, I didn't have to walk home, good old Hettie.

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I suppose we need to fit pedals in a monsoon? ;D

Spitfire:
Sealing the HT leads where they go into the coils was the big problem for me when I was an all weather rider, I kept having problems and one night I looked under the tank and it was like an electrical storm under there. Previous to that I tried sealing the plug caps and even putting sections of hosepipe over the leads, in the end a blob of Araldite on each lead where it went into the coils fixed it. We seemed to use Araldite for everything in those days.

Cheers

Dennis

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