Bike won't start.

[aff-man]

^&@#$^%$#!^%&@#$#%!@%$^%*$$%@# i bloody took the thing to pieces,cleaned the plugs and she still won't go. Will give it one more try and then off to the bike shop on a trailer.


The reason i bought it was the mechanic said it was in pretty good shape with no hassels. He told me all the problems so i knew i would need to put some work in but he never said anything about this. I'm real pissed off, the first day it doesn't rain and i can't ride the new bike $@$@!%$

[FROSTY:Me]

Aff man -gimme a call --come over and borrow a set of my plugs.
Trust me dude NO amount of cleaning of ya plugs is gonna make her run.
The only option is new plugs Believe me Ive been through the same shit.

[aff-man]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (psyco laught) It's alive alive i tell you. Well i got her running but the big question is will she start in the moring.

Cheers XJ/FROSTY maybe we could meet up sometime and you can give me the ins and out of the 400 as well as some good maintanace advice. P.s. is that thing on the ize a fuel pump or filter ause it was clicking away when running (250 didn't have one i don't think)

[FROSTY:Me]

its the fuel pump dude. Dont be disheartened if it don't start in the morning.
Mine pulled the not starting stunt on me

[riffer]

The fuel pump is definitely the clicking thing. My fizzer does that whenever I start it up, but only for a couple seconds.

Is it possible there's a bit of a blockage between the tank and the fuel pump. Or alternately, a hole in the pipe?

[merv]

Are you sure its sparking at the plugs? You haven't mentioned doing the good old test of having a plug out hanging on its lead and earthing it to the motor and then hitting the start button to check its sparking. Do that first and if that's OK, check you are getting fuel through and so on.

Usually its one of two things - electrics or fuel (unless of course the motor is so worn it won't go, but I think you can rule that out because it was running). Electrics worse case scenario can be blown black box (big $$). Fuel problems are usually not so expensive to sort.

[aff-man]

Once it was running it was sorta sweet so i am sure it was the plugs. But she will be going in for a good service soon so that will sort everything out. Cheers for the help guys i'm now off to see if it will start

[aff-man]

I must have the magic touch cause she started up first go. Well bike is booked in for next week so hopefully will get everything the needs doing done.




P.S. Rididng in the dry and she is not a slow machine aye

[pete376403]

Weak ignition coils are sometimes a problem. The spark at the plug is crap at the best of time and when the starter motor is pulling most of the available juice, there's bugger all left to power the coils. Some ignition systems use a ballast resistor and a lower voltage coil to get around this problem. When the starter motor is operating the resistor is switched out of the circuit. When the engine is running the resistor drops the voltage to a level the coil can live with.