any reasons why after 2 weeks my bike is hard to start???? takes forever to get it fired up, but after it does its fine as long as i fire it up once every 3 days or so.
??? anyone?
do i have it set to rich?
Will
440-341-7755
1994 VN750
HAS VERY CLEAN carbs! lol so i know thats not the issue.
Have you checked the petcock? If it's leaking a bit, it might be flooding the carbs after a certain time.
Mine did this and the petcock was letting gas into the carbs even when it was off. It happened faster for me, but maybe yours has a smaller leak/is letting fewer gas in.
Just something to look into, just in case.
Also might be the battery. Even if the voltage checks out ok, on those days that it's hard to start, jump it with a car battery (with the car OFF), and see if it starts better.
Well, I said to try another battery anyway because I've had a battery once before that showed good voltage but still didn't work right... voltage was right, but wasn't putting out enough amps.
I dunno about other places, but I´ve seen petcock rebuild kits on ebay. Somebody else here might know of other places though.
Random shot- I had that issue until I finally got around to grabbing a lower weight oil and putting it in there. 20w 50 was great for 90-100 degrees but gets cranky 40 and below. My fault was laziness.
Hot start problems VN750 2002 12500 miles. Solution: There are 5 proposed fixes in the verses. I applied 4 of them in sequence as follows:
1) Installed new battery. Old battery was still in acceptable range but not knowing its exact age I chose to switch it out. Sealed type battery of course.
2) Relocated the Regulator/Rectifier to side(per Forum sketches/pictures)
3)Put in new Iridium plugs. $7 a piece from Advace Auto Parts
4)Adjusted the pickup coil gaps. The top coil was at .030 and the bottom was over .040...which was probably the culprit. This solved my problem.
this would apply if my problem was a hard to start when "HOT" but its COLD and been a week or more of not running it thats the problem .. thanks for the link tho i will check it out and see what it might offer
UPDATE : after talking with "LANCE" aka Ron, (very insightful guy btw!) he recommended i try again after i heated up my garage before trying to fire it up and VOILA! fired Right up no hesitation. i do however have to rebuild the petcock as it leaks if i mess with the valve and going to get the NGK plugs he recommended i get for it.
will post the part # soon as i find the paper i wrote it on lol
Thanks a million Ron, i really thought cold air helped with combustion.. guess theres a fine line on what temp it goes the other way. hehe
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