I've had my 2012 R1200RT since 2016, and until the pandemic arrived I commuted into London on it just about every day, come rain or shine. Generally it was really reliable.
After lockdown started, the bike didn't get used much for a year or so (certainly not the mileage I had been putting on it previously) but I used it a few times this year, and did a 100 mile round trip about 4 weeks ago. About 2 weeks ago, I got it out to go out, and it wouldn't run properly at all. Coughed and spluttered and if it ever tried to run, it was only running on one cylinder. It also smelt really heavily of fuel from the exhaust.
I've had someone plug in a GS911 reader but that didn't show up any faults at all. I can tell that it's the RH cylinder (as you sit on it) that isn't firing as the other exhaust gets warm when it tries to run but the RH one doesn't. I've had both plugs out of that cylinder and they are both sparking, and at one point when I was testing that, it coughed into life on the other pot and there was high-pressure fuel/air shooting out of the empty plug hole.
I'm stuck now and have no idea where to go next with it. As above, it ran fine the time I used it before, and now it's half dead. I think I'm going to have to put it into someone (Mark Holden hopefully) to look at it but wondered whether anyone had another ideas before I do?
Thanks for reading.
After lockdown started, the bike didn't get used much for a year or so (certainly not the mileage I had been putting on it previously) but I used it a few times this year, and did a 100 mile round trip about 4 weeks ago. About 2 weeks ago, I got it out to go out, and it wouldn't run properly at all. Coughed and spluttered and if it ever tried to run, it was only running on one cylinder. It also smelt really heavily of fuel from the exhaust.
I've had someone plug in a GS911 reader but that didn't show up any faults at all. I can tell that it's the RH cylinder (as you sit on it) that isn't firing as the other exhaust gets warm when it tries to run but the RH one doesn't. I've had both plugs out of that cylinder and they are both sparking, and at one point when I was testing that, it coughed into life on the other pot and there was high-pressure fuel/air shooting out of the empty plug hole.
I'm stuck now and have no idea where to go next with it. As above, it ran fine the time I used it before, and now it's half dead. I think I'm going to have to put it into someone (Mark Holden hopefully) to look at it but wondered whether anyone had another ideas before I do?
Thanks for reading.