Ive been a bad, bad man, and I need help. Only shut off the petcock before leaving this thing under a tarp.
You may be surprised that the spark, carb and airbox were clean. My problem is that the gas tank was fouled, and not knowing that rust or water could develop, I just drained old gas, filled up, and brought all kinds of hell to the carb, and had to clean it all anyway.
I ended up pouring gas in a cup, waited till particles settled, and manually poured into fuel line. Bike started and idled fine, with only some delay at higher RPM.
I put in an inline fuel filter which should take care of particles. Now the filter fills from a leaky petcock, even in the off position and the following problem when starting:
slow crank, engine fires and dies after 2 minutes, and next crank it turns to slow to start. Third start engine turns twice and no more. Only a ticking sound which I assume is the spark plug.
Is it now the battery dying from so many starts without riding, or is it an over supply / contamination of fuel?
Many thanks.. frustrating as I have never worked on a motorcycle before, and have to start with this messy stuff.
You may be surprised that the spark, carb and airbox were clean. My problem is that the gas tank was fouled, and not knowing that rust or water could develop, I just drained old gas, filled up, and brought all kinds of hell to the carb, and had to clean it all anyway.
I ended up pouring gas in a cup, waited till particles settled, and manually poured into fuel line. Bike started and idled fine, with only some delay at higher RPM.
I put in an inline fuel filter which should take care of particles. Now the filter fills from a leaky petcock, even in the off position and the following problem when starting:
slow crank, engine fires and dies after 2 minutes, and next crank it turns to slow to start. Third start engine turns twice and no more. Only a ticking sound which I assume is the spark plug.
Is it now the battery dying from so many starts without riding, or is it an over supply / contamination of fuel?
Many thanks.. frustrating as I have never worked on a motorcycle before, and have to start with this messy stuff.