Last summer I drove through rivers in Iceland with my Yamaha XT600E 2001. The problem I had was following: whenever the river was wide and about knee deep, the engine just shuts off when I am about half way the river.
That's realy anoying! The engine wil start again immidiately, but has no power. When I want to drive again, the engine just shuts off again. Somtetimes the choke helps. But not often. At one time I had to push the bike by hand through the second half of the river. Another time when the bike was stalled, I dugged the rear tire into the soil and was really stuck.
As soon as the bike is out of the water, the bike handels als normal. No problems at all. I think it has something todo with the temperature of the water. The rivers are very cold.
I checked the air filter, but everything was dry, no water has entered.
I don't know what the problem exactly is, but it is a problem. Does anyone had the same problem?
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