I just started having problems with my bike. All of the sudden, it will start and sounds normal. Once it starts to warm up, it will start to sound like it's flooding and eventually stop running. It will only run for about 2 minutes before it dies. It will not start after it stops. If you wait until the next day, it starts up perfectly and sounds exactly as it should...for about a minute or two before the flooding sound starts again and it dies. Not too sure where to begin. The carbs were cleaned and new floats installed about 10 months ago. It has a new stator, regulator/rectifier and fuel relay. Everything else on it is all original. Any suggestions?

 

It sounds like you may have whats is called insulation brakedown, it is not very common but it happens when one of legs in your charging system gets hot and the insulation melts and then from then on when the harness gets hot, the charging system fails but I will have to do more homework to get the exact causes and fixes so you know what you are looking at, cause it is not very common my knowledge of it is not in debth

 

and I bet it will start after it cools off in thirty minutes or so, I believe it has something to with your charging system! Now another thing it could be is insulation breakdown in your ignition coils, the reason I belive breakdown is because you said that after it warms up right then it dies, could be your ignition ius getting hot and shorting out!!! this is more likely what is going on since rereading your post you said that stator is new, and that is where you would find the other problem, but ignition heating up and grounding out is tough to find but it is probebly where you should look

 

thanks toddmonster, it is driving me ape****. You hit the nail on the head. The next morning it will fire right up at the first crank. Sounds great and smooth. Then, once it starts warming up, it sounds as if it is flooding. It will then die out and wont start up until it is cold again. So you think the coils or wiring harness?

 

you definately have a breakdown somewhere, you need to test the charging leads, then test the coils, but you need to get them up to temp so you can duplicate it other wise you will get false readings