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2004 harley davidson road classic will not start and is pumping gasoline profusely from the spark plug holes in the
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Customer: 2004 harley davidson road king classic will not start and is pumping gasoline profusely from the spark plug holes in the cylinder heads. The bike does have ignition and fire at spark plugs.
Answered by Steve in 16 mins 10 years ago
Steve
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is the engine carbureted or fuel injected?
did you perform any maintenance or add any accessories before this started?
tell me everything you can.
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The engine is fuel injected. I repaired the bike recently and drove it about 30 miles with no problem. Then it broke down these are the series of events that took place.
- Throttle was sticking on bike removed throttle housing found wiring harness bound against throttle grip removed snap tie pull back electrical harness
- Reinstalled throttle housing that fixed the problem
- Broke down on the side of the road and brought it back to garage it was bike would crank over, but it would not start. checked all fuses good fire at spark plugs, however when cranking over motor gasoline was profusely pouring out of spark plug holes. Thank god it didn't catch on fire
your engine requires 3 things to start and run.
- timed ignition (spark)
- a proper air/fuel ratio (fuel)
- compression.
I don't know what "profusely pouring out of the spark plug holes" means. there should be fuel pumping out of a spark plug hole if the engine is cranking and the spark plugs are removed. this is why we check spark with spark testers and not by grounding the plug on the head......you are very lucky.
determine which of the three above you are missing and let me know.
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