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Xt600E - River crossings - Bike stops
1 month of ownership into my XT600E and im loving it. She's not perfect, but is solid and hasn't caused me any major headaches.

Here's my questions, which I haven't been able to answer anywhere else.

Went for a ride the other day and did some river crossings. First was maybe a quarter up the wheel, no issues. Second one was about at the top of the front hub and the bike stopped mid river.

I re-started, gave it some throttle, traveled about a bike length, stopped again. Walked it out, started it, it stumbled but gave it some throttle and all good.

Here is what I cant work out. From what I can see, the water wasnt high enough to enter the airbox and no water came out of the exhaust. Why is it stopping? I was with a XT660 Tenere and a G650GS, and they had no issues.

From reading something online, the only thing I can think of is maybe water was getting on the spark plug? Could this be my issues? And how do you fix it? Silicone grease?

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Do you have a breatherhose running down low ? That might be the issue. You can cut of of so its not so lang, or put in a "T" and run an additional line up high on the bike.

Make sure you dont have airleaks at the carb, thesse can also draw in splashes of water. Make sure the cable down to the sparkplugcap inst missing any insulation and thus shorting to frame.
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Maybe your front wheel through some water above the engine to the air filter and get inside the engine intake...
Use less speed and buy the front fender extention to send less water to the engine!

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Does the bike start right up again ?
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a simple tip to find the guilty part:
when you are back home, start the bike and hose the engine area with plenty water starting from bottom towards top. if it stops at one point, it might help you to single out the problem.
Thats how i check that my road race bikes are "rain resistant"

but we dont have any water crossings in the circuits
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If you're only axle deep I can't imagine it being anything to do with the motor, air intake or even breather hoses.

It could be your side stand switch shorting out.
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Went for a ride the other day and did some river crossings. First was maybe a quarter up the wheel, no issues. Second one was about at the top of the front hub and the bike stopped mid river.

I re-started, gave it some throttle, traveled about a bike length, stopped again. Walked it out, started it, it stumbled but gave it some throttle and all good.
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Same problem in 2002 with a rented XT600E.
Once the motor got wet it died.
Had to wait a few minutes and pull the choke and started again like in cold weather.
Not such a good feeling when all I could think about were salties.

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Same problem in 2002 with a rented XT600E.
Once the motor got wet it died.
Had to wait a few minutes and pull the choke and started again like in cold weather.
Not such a good feeling when all I could think about were salties.

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yep as I also found.....likely you sucked water into fuel bowl via bowl overflow tube if engine would only start and run with the choke only. Pilot jet pulls fuel from low in the fuel bowl. Choke circuit pulls fuel from a higher level in the fuel bowl so any fuel would have been floating on the water in the bowl and drawn up by choke circuit enabling you to start engine
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