Is there a Starting Problem Fix?
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RE: Is there a Starting Problem Fix?
Ok guys I think im nuts and I’m sure you all do to , Anyways when the choke is set at fully open it has another ¼” of play, if you hold it open the extra ¼” and crank the bike over she starts right up, at lest its been working for me if I don’t do it that way it wont start at all. Before that on cold days if not overcast I let the bike sit in the sun for 30min or so and she fires right up, I also have used a hair dryer on the carb to warm it up.
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RE: Is there a Starting Problem Fix?
Just for fun, maybe I'll check his choke to see if there is play and maybe for some reason it isn't coming all of the way out, but then it wouldn't explain why it fires on the first try if it sat for under a week.
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RE: Is there a Starting Problem Fix?
Funny thing about my bike, if i ride it everyday it starts right up. IfI skip a day it still starts just takes a little longer. but for every day after that I try to start the bike it takes longer and longer, until after 5 days or more it not starting. Oh sure it might fire and cough a few times, but no start. In the summer I rode everyday and never turned the gas off or ran it out. Our temps here are 30 to 40 in the winter and 60 to 80 in the summer.
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RE: Is there a Starting Problem Fix?
ORIGINAL: poodlenuts
Ok guys I think im nuts and I’m sure you all do to , Anyways when the choke is set at fully open it has another ¼” of play, if you hold it open the extra ¼” and crank the bike over she starts right up, at lest its been working for me if I don’t do it that way it wont start at all. Before that on cold days if not overcast I let the bike sit in the sun for 30min or so and she fires right up, I also have used a hair dryer on the carb to warm it up.
Ok guys I think im nuts and I’m sure you all do to , Anyways when the choke is set at fully open it has another ¼” of play, if you hold it open the extra ¼” and crank the bike over she starts right up, at lest its been working for me if I don’t do it that way it wont start at all. Before that on cold days if not overcast I let the bike sit in the sun for 30min or so and she fires right up, I also have used a hair dryer on the carb to warm it up.
Just messing with ya Poodlenuts. But it was a good thought man. And it may just work for some bikes.
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RE: Is there a Starting Problem Fix?
ORIGINAL: deej
Funny thing about my bike, if i ride it everyday it starts right up. If I skip a day it still starts just takes a little longer. but for every day after that I try to start the bike it takes longer and longer, until after 5 days or more it not starting. Oh sure it might fire and cough a few times, but no start. In the summer I rode everyday and never turned the gas off or ran it out. Our temps here are 30 to 40 in the winter and 60 to 80 in the summer.
Funny thing about my bike, if i ride it everyday it starts right up. If I skip a day it still starts just takes a little longer. but for every day after that I try to start the bike it takes longer and longer, until after 5 days or more it not starting. Oh sure it might fire and cough a few times, but no start. In the summer I rode everyday and never turned the gas off or ran it out. Our temps here are 30 to 40 in the winter and 60 to 80 in the summer.
Wow really? Even my Serow(worst starting bike after sitting that I have ever owned) would start up after only 5 days. The Serow would be hard to start once it hit 2 weeks.
Since I have done the mods, the bike starts instantaneously even after sitting for 2 weeks.
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RE: Is there a Starting Problem Fix?
ORIGINAL: FM_Thumper
Wow really? Even my Serow(worst starting bike after sitting that I have ever owned) would start up after only 5 days. The Serow would be hard to start once it hit 2 weeks.
Since I have done the mods, the bike starts instantaneously even after sitting for 2 weeks.
ORIGINAL: deej
Funny thing about my bike, if i ride it everyday it starts right up. IfI skip a day it still starts just takes a little longer. but for every day after that I try to start the bike it takes longer and longer, until after 5 days or more it not starting. Oh sure it might fire and cough a few times, but no start. In the summer I rode everyday and never turned the gas off or ran it out. Our temps here are 30 to 40 in the winter and 60 to 80 in the summer.
Funny thing about my bike, if i ride it everyday it starts right up. IfI skip a day it still starts just takes a little longer. but for every day after that I try to start the bike it takes longer and longer, until after 5 days or more it not starting. Oh sure it might fire and cough a few times, but no start. In the summer I rode everyday and never turned the gas off or ran it out. Our temps here are 30 to 40 in the winter and 60 to 80 in the summer.
Wow really? Even my Serow(worst starting bike after sitting that I have ever owned) would start up after only 5 days. The Serow would be hard to start once it hit 2 weeks.
Since I have done the mods, the bike starts instantaneously even after sitting for 2 weeks.
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RE: Is there a Starting Problem Fix?
ORIGINAL: deej
There has to be some common denominator, like maybe everyone that has removed the smog stuff or has the right jets, as in maybe too large is not good. I wonder if someone could figure out a way to compare everone's mods. I remember a spreadsheet that listed all the mods, I wonder where that went?
There has to be some common denominator, like maybe everyone that has removed the smog stuff or has the right jets, as in maybe too large is not good. I wonder if someone could figure out a way to compare everone's mods. I remember a spreadsheet that listed all the mods, I wonder where that went?
An easy way to do it would be if people listed their mods on their auto-sig.
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RE: Is there a Starting Problem Fix?
ORIGINAL: FM_Thumper
An easy way to do it would be if people listed their mods on their auto-sig.
ORIGINAL: deej
There has to be some common denominator, like maybe everyone that has removed the smog stuff or has the right jets, as in maybe too large is not good. I wonder if someone could figure out a way to compare everone's mods. I remember a spreadsheet that listed all the mods, I wonder where that went?
There has to be some common denominator, like maybe everyone that has removed the smog stuff or has the right jets, as in maybe too large is not good. I wonder if someone could figure out a way to compare everone's mods. I remember a spreadsheet that listed all the mods, I wonder where that went?
An easy way to do it would be if people listed their mods on their auto-sig.
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RE: Is there a Starting Problem Fix?
ORIGINAL: MaverickAus
Can't, it doesn't allow enough letters for mine
ORIGINAL: FM_Thumper
An easy way to do it would be if people listed their mods on their auto-sig.
ORIGINAL: deej
There has to be some common denominator, like maybe everyone that has removed the smog stuff or has the right jets, as in maybe too large is not good. I wonder if someone could figure out a way to compare everone's mods. I remember a spreadsheet that listed all the mods, I wonder where that went?
There has to be some common denominator, like maybe everyone that has removed the smog stuff or has the right jets, as in maybe too large is not good. I wonder if someone could figure out a way to compare everone's mods. I remember a spreadsheet that listed all the mods, I wonder where that went?
An easy way to do it would be if people listed their mods on their auto-sig.