I think the tube disconnected from the bottom of your fuel tank might be an overflow, if you have a recessed fuel filler cap on your tank, the excess has to drain someplace. It’s very suspicious that it wouldn’t start using the spray but in my experience carburetor cleaner spray does not work as well as regular starting fluid for that. It does sound like fuel is not getting from your petcock to your carburetors and one of the commenters suggested opening one or more carburetor float bowl drain screws to see if you got fuel coming from the tank to the carbs. Good luck with the issue and keep working at it! Once the lines were set up correctly and I disassembled and cleaned the carbs the bike started up like a champ. Took me a month of playing around to figure out that the previous owner tried cleaning the carbs and swapped the air/vacuum lines with fuel lines. I bought a bandit 600 that was going to the junk yard for 400$ when I had no idea how to fix a motorcycle. Biggest thing to remember when these carbed bikes won’t start is they are really simple. Start at the tank and move down the bike till you get to the engine. One way you can check this is to look in one of the carb float bowl drain plugs and make sure fuel is coming out.Īnother way to troubleshoot a fuel issue is work your way from the top down. Especially with the fact that when you sprayed starter fluid you just got a few strokes (literally running on fumes). I’d agree with it sounding like a fuel problem. And to me it looks like one is missing?Īll that said, what do I need to do? I'm not too experienced with this so I'm probably going to call our family's mechanic to make sure I don't fuck anything up, I don't think it will be much labor? Also all the connecting tubes and that are real old looking. ![]() Only thing that still needed fixing is my carbs diaphragms and maybe jets. Carbs were cleaned, spark plugs checked, oil replaced, stator is fine, air filter all good, filters in fuel tank all good, new 91 petrol. Turns out rectifier/alternator was fucked. Was serviced 3 months when the engine died out of nowhere. Didn't start with button start but I rolled down my driveway, kicked it into first and it fired up for like 1 second. Sprayed a whole lot of carb cleaner into airbox to use as starter fluid. Tried push starting it, turning over but not firing up. ![]() Charged battery all the way up and tried again, same thing. ![]() So tried to start bike thismorning, was turning over but not firing up. Image shows bike with tank raised but fully connected, mini fairings taken off and airbox removed. Stolen bikes belong in local subreddits.Any advice would be great.Showing off Bikes or Gear? Click Here Looking for purchase advice? Click Here Join our discord! The previous owner made me aware of the issue when I brought the bike, and he told me that the owners before him also had the same issue.Īnyway, any of you guys have any clues as to what it could be? I'm in the process of changing the spark plugs, but to be honest I highly doubt they're the culprit here. I don't know if this is the same issue, or a separate one. After a few seconds of babying it it generally rights itself, and after a little more warmup time it runs great. By that I mean it sounds like the engine is struggling to tick over, and I often have to rev the bike to just keep it idling, and if I don't it will stall and turn itself off. When the bike is started initially it seems "tired". I currently have a brand new battery in it (brought last week) and it had no effect on this particular issue. It outright won't start without it, and it acts like a dead battery in terms of sound. It just needs to be sprayed once starting it again, even if the bike has been resting, doesn't seem to need any additional fluid. Anyway, the bike requires a squirt of starting fluid into the air filter every day. So my bike is a gsx250f, and it's a '93 model, so it's a little long in the tooth. I've got a fun "my bike won't start" question. ![]() Showing off Bikes or Gear? Click Here Looking for purchase advice? Click Here Join our discord!
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