bike dies when bars are turned hard right....

[tarlint]

2000 WR 400 runs great. When at idle, if you turn the bars to the right, at a given point the bike starts to die.......if you turn them all the way, it dies immediately.

I tried changing the kill switch out thinking it was shorting.......still does it. Anyone have any ideas???? I am a fairly new rider with minimal experience troubleshooting this stuff.

Thanks in advance for reading and helping.

[Charles De Mar]

2000 WR 400 runs great. When at idle, if you turn the bars to the right, at a given point the bike starts to die.......if you turn them all the way, it dies immediately.

I tried changing the kill switch out thinking it was shorting.......still does it. Anyone have any ideas???? I am a fairly new rider with minimal experience troubleshooting this stuff.

Thanks in advance for reading and helping.

I would look at the manual and take of the headlight off and check the wiring. Check your throttle cable too.

[flyer05]

I think your decompression cable is to tight. Loosen it up bit.

[GENE426]

Got to be cable or wire being pinched

[tarlint]

should i just move it to the right and try and loosen the cable.....or do I actually twist the cable harness to loosen that part?

[mightymart]

Got to be cable or wire being pinched

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Check that nothing is being stretched ie throttle cable. After I had a fall once on another bike the throttle cables rotated round slighly & started to cut out on full lock.

[flyer05]

Yes, move it a little to the right. As you turn right it is opening the decompression release and the engine will die.

Good luck.

[bluebike1999]

yep, had that one too...i thought it was the kill switch too

mine did it after i fitted new bars with raisers...decomp lever just getting tension, enough to open it a bit

good luck

[Frostbite]

yep, had that one too...i thought it was the kill switch too

mine did it after i fitted new bars with raisers...decomp lever just getting tension, enough to open it a bit

good luck

Add me to the tight decomp club, an easy fix though.

[OUTERLIMITS]

I seem to recall the same problem on my 650 right after I put taller bars on. I ended up loosening everything up and moving the kill switch, clutch lever/decomp inboard just a bit and it went away. Never could determine which it was, but same deal right hand turns only going real slow where you really crank the bars over.

[creeky]

Had the same problem some time back on my '01 WR400, decomp cable misrouted, turning the bars activated the decomp.