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well....... ITS BROKEN DOWN AGAIN *tear* got up this morning all happy that i have a road worthy and going bike again and ready to go to work... and the starter motor is stuck or something... after half a hour fiddling with it. nanna manages to make it go using the secret art of poking it till it went.... but now the damn thing is turning over and just not going... its got fuel its got spark its got air... dad even sprayed some starter helper thing in the air box and still no luck.

so if anyone has any ideas would really help alot.


new update is we have everything back to how it was last night and the night before the bike should be running... like i said above its turning over fine... but just refuses to start.

How many times have you had the tank off? If it's like the ZZR there is a breather hose under the tank, if it gets kinked/pinched/breathed on wrong is stops decent fuel flow...

If you tried lots of things to start it, it may have soiled a plug.

not sure about that breather in the tank.. but due to the fact that ti seems to have plenty of fuel in the fuel filter we don't think its the starved of fuel.. and we pulled one of the plugs out and tested on the bike to see if i was sparking it is. so even if only that one is working it should start.. and run shit but start all the same

thanks heaps for you imput but still might need alot more

Tried push starting? At the risk of stating the obvious, bike is in neutral, clutch in, sidestand up? Fuel is on.. kill switch is on...

binther wrote:but due to the fact that ti seems to have plenty of fuel in the fuel filter we don't think its the starved of fuel..

Not necessarily. If the hose is kinked, or if there's a vacuum lock, the fuel may not travel through even when there's fuel in the filter.

push starting didn't work.. and no kink in the fuel line as i said i had taken the bike for a 10 minute ride the night before... and nothing had changed from that... current idea going around is the poor carby has shat itself.... so again sunday or monday the doner bike gives up a carby to test this

thanks for the input

lets hope the carby transplant works

well lucky one of the old man's mates pointed out that this had happened to him in the past looks like dad had ajusted the choke on the bike until it had filled the entire thing up with fuel.. the pistions and after turning it over... we had pushed it into the the rest of the engine... so looks like we had to drop the oil.... at this point which was mostly fuel out and give it 48 hours to breath and dry out.. hopefully this will fix it

I heard something a bit different - to do with float levels!

i hear alot of things... but with my story i get to blame dad.. he feels guilty and hopefully will just fix it this time instead of waiting around for me to be there... this means i can't mess anything up

looks like it was the prim... so note to everyone don't leave you bike sitting over nite with prim on haha

we drained the bike replaced the filter new oil and more fuel and what do you know away she goes yay *Dances* so it looks like im back in business its wonderfully down end now purrs and has more power then i can remember is alittle weaker high end i would like to thank sally for pointing out whats wrong rusty for laughing at me,

nanna the master repairman

oh well looks like he ecan go back to making redectors now

Any time, mate, all part of the service!

binther wrote:looks like it was the prim... so note to everyone don't leave you bike sitting over nite with prim on haha

we drained the bike replaced the filter new oil and more fuel and what do you know away she goes yay *Dances* so it looks like im back in business its wonderfully down end now purrs and has more power then i can remember is alittle weaker high end i would like to thank sally for pointing out whats wrong rusty for laughing at me,

nanna the master repairman

oh well looks like he ecan go back to making redectors now

Who the fark is this sally bloke

some old bloke apparenty who once dropped me bike

haha