Bought a 2001 GP1200R from a guy on my lake, only had 25 hours on it, but he said, after the first year it "never ran right" so I got it very inexpensively. Got it home, charged the battery, and started. It runs fine on the trailer dry, but when I opened the hose to provide water, it immediately dies. Would get it started again dry, but immediatly dies again with water. Checked the compression, 118 across all three cylinders. I then bought a "d" plate and chip, and swapped out the cat conv. It then seemed to run fine on the trailer with the hose hooked up and open. I thought the problem was fixed, so dumped it in the lake, and went about 30 yards, and quit. Pulled the plugs, two had water droplets on them. Back on the trailer, it re-started and runs fine dry. Figured, maybe a leaking head gasket, so pulled the head, everything looked perfect, no bridging across the gaskets, or other noticable issues. So now I'm trying to figure out where the water is entering the cylinders. Have there ever been issues with cracked exhaust manifolds that let water enter the exhaust stream? Does anyone have a schematic of the coolant path?
thanks for your help
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