Is there a Starting Problem Fix?
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RE: Is there a Starting Problem Fix?
I abandoned the replace the spark plug after a week experiment, I guess I was too excited to see if turning off the gas and hitting the throttle works. So its been two days. I'm gonna give it at least another 5 days. I know one big difference between the KLX and the XT 225, its raining today and the 225 doesn't have the wide shrouds like the KLX does and my legs got soaked riding home for lunch.
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RE: Is there a Starting Problem Fix?
FTW? Yea I have over the pant, pants. But it doesn't help that they were at home when it decided to down pour. Besides how wet can you get in two miles right?
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RE: Is there a Starting Problem Fix?
I hear that. Funny though the only part that gets wet are from the knee down. Hey maybe I should invent some sort of Velcro wrap around water proof.........OK I'm gonna stop my self right there.
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RE: Is there a Starting Problem Fix?
ORIGINAL: Kohburn
that sounds like the needle is leaking fuel into the carb slowly flooding the engine over days.
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.
I have foundrunning the carb dry when I know i will notrun it for a week worksperfect and is really not a hassle at all. If I do forget, I take a hex ball driver and drain the bowl quickly.
I blame it on the small bowl volume, and the design of the carb, and gas not being what it used to be.
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RE: Is there a Starting Problem Fix?
Currently my bike sits in the garage as follows:
I started it tuesday, let it run a minute or so, shut the gas off and then just gave it 2 to 3 1/4 to 1/2 twists of the throttle and killed it via the kill switch. It's cold here and is expected to stay cold for the remainder of the week and week-end. Temps are staying below freezing all week, so sometime next week should be a good test of this theory...I am a little unsure if I ran the bike long enough or gave it enough run time with the gas off to burn enough fuel from the carb to prevent it from overflowing as we think it is doing...but we will see.
I started it tuesday, let it run a minute or so, shut the gas off and then just gave it 2 to 3 1/4 to 1/2 twists of the throttle and killed it via the kill switch. It's cold here and is expected to stay cold for the remainder of the week and week-end. Temps are staying below freezing all week, so sometime next week should be a good test of this theory...I am a little unsure if I ran the bike long enough or gave it enough run time with the gas off to burn enough fuel from the carb to prevent it from overflowing as we think it is doing...but we will see.
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RE: Is there a Starting Problem Fix?
ORIGINAL: mudjunkie
Currently my bike sits in the garage as follows:
I started it tuesday, let it run a minute or so, shut the gas off and then just gave it 2 to 3 1/4 to 1/2 twists of the throttle and killed it via the kill switch. It's cold here and is expected to stay cold for the remainder of the week and week-end. Temps are staying below freezing all week, so sometime next week should be a good test of this theory...I am a little unsure if I ran the bike long enough or gave it enough run time with the gas off to burn enough fuel from the carb to prevent it from overflowing as we think it is doing...but we will see.
Currently my bike sits in the garage as follows:
I started it tuesday, let it run a minute or so, shut the gas off and then just gave it 2 to 3 1/4 to 1/2 twists of the throttle and killed it via the kill switch. It's cold here and is expected to stay cold for the remainder of the week and week-end. Temps are staying below freezing all week, so sometime next week should be a good test of this theory...I am a little unsure if I ran the bike long enough or gave it enough run time with the gas off to burn enough fuel from the carb to prevent it from overflowing as we think it is doing...but we will see.
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RE: Is there a Starting Problem Fix?
If the carb is overflowing it would leak fuel out the overflow tube to the floor before it gets to the cylinder shouldn't it?