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Bike won't start
Written by mlipmd on 3/30/2012 at 09:49 pm

My bike has been sitting for a while as I haven't been able to ride for a
variety of reasons. The battery was on a trickle charger for a while, I started
it and ran it periodically 'till it warmed up maybe every 2 weeks or so, then it
sat again. My charging system works, puts out > 13V w/ engine running.
My battery started to poop out despite periodically charging it, it wouldn't
hold a charge for more than a day, and maybe would start the bike right after
being on the charger, but not the next day.
I bought a new AGM battery after not being able to resurrect the old one,
charged it up fully as you are supposed to (was at 13.5V when I put it in the
bike and was 12.9 a few hours later), took off all the right side covers and
changed out the battery. Now the bike cranks over fine, nice and fast, battery
still has good voltage, but the bike won't start no matter what, choke, no
choke. It always started within 1-2 seconds before and has been running fine, no
problems. And now the battery's back on the charger to top it off again.
First I thought that maybe I flooded it by cranking it numerous times and not
having enough juice to fire off the plugs. Then I thought maybe I disconnected
something when removing and replacing the 4 covers on the right side, but I did
this pretty carefully and had no difficulty.
Then maybe I blew a fuse somewhere with the charger? Everything seems to work.
It was a little low on gas (gauge needle 1/8th inch from the red) so I put about
a gallon of fresh gas in the tank from a can I had (now it reads a little less
then half full). I always put some Berryman's B12 Chemtool in the gas just to
keep the carb clean from getting gummed up, especially if the bike will sit for
a few weeks, but I guess having the tank low I could have sucked some dirt, if
there was any in the fuel tank, into the carb.
Any thoughts other than those and where I should start to look?
I tried cranking it for a short while with the choke off and the run/off switch
in the off position to try and clean it out, but any other suggestions on how to
start a flooded engine?
I really don't want to start pulling covers off again, but maybe I have no
choice, I'm really afraid of cracking the plastic.
Thanks for any suggestions.