side of the road....at least it was a side road and only about 5 miles from my Hometown....I had been up there to see my Mother for Mother's Day and to watch my Nephew and Niece play ball...made it up there fine, but I was going to ride on up to Tiger to get one of their famous chili burgers when the bike started dying out on me and sputtering as if it weren't getting enough gas....at least I was able to get it off on a side road on a hill...my Nephew brought a trailer and I was able to let the bike roll downhill into the trailer...I had my Wife come pick me up and bring me home and tomorrow I'll go and pick the bike up in my trailer and try to get it back in it's little building....
I talked with a couple of guys on the phone after I tried a couple of things on my own...like cracking the gas cap, no luck...I'm thinking like my buddies told me and think that the vacuum hoses have a crack(s) in them somewhere....it would try to crank at first but would die as though it weren't getting any gas.....I had BigBF replace the petcock last August, but as far as I know, I have never had the vacuum lines replaced...I wasn't about to try to take my pods, tank, and spark plug covers off there on the side of the road...
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It couldn't have happened in a better spot I guess and at least I wasn't on the road to the Blue/Grey ride when it happened....but I do NOT look forward to trying to replace the vacuum tubing....I know it'd be easier to do if I pulled the air box out, but I think others have said it's a bugger to get back in correctly...and I know a lot of folks have used strings and wire to run new tubes back in...I think there's a guy over on the Delphi VRF that sells a kit of new hoses for the vacuum system....I will post over there and see if he's still got some for sale.....I didn't need this extra aggravation this close to the BG ride...
...what a bummer!!
