First let me start by saying hello to everyone as this is my first post. I am just getting into riding and recently purchased my first bike. It was a beauty Yamaha maxim xs400.
Today I took it out for my first run.. It ran like a charm.
I took it down to a local parking lot to practice some turning and stopping and then took it over to the gas station to fuel it up.
It has recently had an oil change.
When I got home I realized that the odometer was reading the same as when I left and the trip counter was at 0. I read up on this and went to go for another test drive to check it out. Before I got on the bike I realized that I had the Petcock on the Res tank, so I switched it to On this is where the problems started.
When I went to start the bike it was a little sluggish to start but after a couple cranks and some choke I was able to get it idling. I turned the choke down as I was getting ready to take off and then gave it a throttle check to make sure it was still warm from my previous ride . As I let off the throttle the bike started to rev high and kept going till it was really high rpms . I tried to move throttle because I thought it was stuck or something and it just stayed at high revs. I had to use the kill switch to turn it off.
I then put it back on reserve and it seemed to work fine again.
I repeated the above by putting it back to On and had the same idle issue.
Can anyone help me? I put regular fuel in the tank .
Today I took it out for my first run.. It ran like a charm.
I took it down to a local parking lot to practice some turning and stopping and then took it over to the gas station to fuel it up.
It has recently had an oil change.
When I got home I realized that the odometer was reading the same as when I left and the trip counter was at 0. I read up on this and went to go for another test drive to check it out. Before I got on the bike I realized that I had the Petcock on the Res tank, so I switched it to On this is where the problems started.
When I went to start the bike it was a little sluggish to start but after a couple cranks and some choke I was able to get it idling. I turned the choke down as I was getting ready to take off and then gave it a throttle check to make sure it was still warm from my previous ride . As I let off the throttle the bike started to rev high and kept going till it was really high rpms . I tried to move throttle because I thought it was stuck or something and it just stayed at high revs. I had to use the kill switch to turn it off.
I then put it back on reserve and it seemed to work fine again.
I repeated the above by putting it back to On and had the same idle issue.
Can anyone help me? I put regular fuel in the tank .
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