DROPPED
I chatted with a bike mechanic today about the problem...he said something about the bike having a fuel pump that pumps fuel from the tank through the petcock...but if you drop the bike or sometimes lean it way over to far it will pick fuel up in a vacuum line and it won't start back up for about 10 minutes till the vacuum line clears the fuel out of the line. So I asked him if it gets dumped hard then...then you either have to wait for the fuel to clear or drain the vacuum line....too, if the line is pinched it will not release and the gas stays in the line...sorry about not being first hand...but perhaps one of hte GURU's out there will see this and say "OH, YEAH....". Hope that someone picks this up...but have him try the gas and vacuum lines and see that they are free flowing.... ALSO, he said to check that the petcock is actually working...because sometimes they break off and even though the knob turns on the outside it's internally broken. In fact he said that his is broken on his 500R...so he's been riding the Harley...(???)