Starting trouble!

Well as the title and video show it won't start. Battery is charged and fine, lights and horn and all that work. But the bike won't start. I can get the engine to turn over for maybe a second and it dies. Trouble shooting ideas?

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Motorcycle
• Sparkplug
• Spark
• Plug
• Maintaince
• Start
• Problem

[deafdeadfishfloating]

Confining my comments to the plug(s):

.... 'dirty'- has to do with a film of carbon crap on the INNER insulation, thus allowing an electrical path from the 'trode to ground without the benefit of a spark. it is DOWN in the hole of the end of the plug that needs inspection, cleaning with a tooth-pick etc. SMELL the plug, it should smell like gas, not kerosine, and if it doesn't smell at all, you arn't getting gas. The gap of the plug, water in the gas, old tired gas, ALL can contribute.

[jhardy66617]

@deafdeadfishfloating thanks for trying to help but this was 7 months ago, i have other videos where i get it started, and comments where i explain what happened as well. thanks though but i already fixed it a while ago. and if your telling me to stick something like a toothpick down into a cylinder your nuts, if u just ment clean the plug with a tookpick, well a wire brush works much better and takes less time.

[BJMoorhouse]

Nah - no way it's your plug dude - mine are GROTTY and old, and it starts 1st time.

make sure that there is NO gap between the engine and the carb - smear a small amount of oil on the join before tightening it down.

Mine did the same when I rebuilt my bike.

Chances are if you use the carb to squirt a bit of fuel directly into the engine it will fire and then rev like crazy (def wanna kill it if it does!)

[jhardy66617]

@BJMoorhouse well it ran fine less then a week ago which makes me wonder what happened in that short ammount of time, how am i supposed to squirt fuel into the engine anyway?

[BJMoorhouse]

@jhardy66617 ah ok - I thought you'd been tinkering with the carb.

The carb has 3 moving parts on the outside. as you twist the throttle though full movement, you'll see them all move. the last stage gives it a little squirt.

[jhardy66617]

@BJMoorhouse ive got starting fluid, gonna try that today when i get a chance. doubt itll work but hey why not try it atleast right? uh what else can i say, nothing really ive been busy with work and crap and havent really gotten around to fixing it but atleast my cage is working now so thats a good thing i can get to work on my own

once its at my friends garage for winter i can start pulling it apart more

i cant be pulling the carbs off in my condo hallway :D

[TigTrager]

its not the spark plu, but the color on the tip will tell you what your carbs are doing.

[BJMoorhouse]

Heh! def not! could get messy :P

[jhardy66617]

@MRATOMIK94 a wire or hard plastic bristle brush works too, nothing as good as sandpaper but that and brake cleaner seemed to do some wonders actually as far as cleaning of the plugs

[MRATOMIK94]

@jhardy66617 get some umm sand paper and file i little bit of the ummm spark thing yeah sorry not to wise i do it on my cbf 150f it allways has spark probs so you clean it with sand paper and yeah i hope it works :)