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Shiney and wet are two characteristics of a cylinder or coil doing downhill....My YZ490 had the wet and shiney plug out of nowhere and with-in no time it just finally lost feesable compression....i nudged the idea of it being the carb around. then i got to thinking.. i did 4 or 5 runs that day of up to 5 laps each (which was all i could take with it running so crappy) and the results were all the same. upon cold start and out the gate, i could only get 2 laps with the bike running very well before it would start to sputter.
conditions: high 70's low 80's. sea level. 100oct mixed to 44:1 Motul 800 fresh from that morning.
i can probably rule the carb being free of any problems based on a previous day where i didn't have any problem with the motor running. sadly it wasn't a long riding day so i wasn't able to get much tuning out of it.
plug is a bit odd. shiny and wet, but its clean. no sut.. not oily. theres only a little bit of dark oil around the threads
One of our members N!pples was experiencing similar results as I recall it ended up being his coil crapping out of left field....same result as you,,,running killer the weekend race before then things went downhill almost at the flick of a switch.....
Heres the thread...... http://www.pocketbikeplanet.com/172...s/79639-coil-problems-testing-ohms-volts.html
The Polini and Blata guys had us chasing our tails saying their coils just quit they dont fail in a downward spiral......N!pples debunked their theory as it as an original genuine coil...Polini told us the same thing
He has a thread and video of it running,,,,sounds quite similar to what you have going on........
Do a compression test.........post the #...........If compression is good change the sparkplug,,,run it again and see if the plug gets wet and shiney again,,,,,,if so and have another coil to try try it out................
Good Luck