BIGmackie
Well-known member
Ok, so I've been away for a little while on deployment and I think my bike got mad at me. Here's the latest and greatest on what I've got going on with my bike.
I pulled the carbs in December for a quick tune up and replaced the intake seals and the bike became difficult to start, wanted no choke, no throttle, and LOTS of cranking before it would fire up. About two weeks later, I winterized it preparing to go on deployment. When I came back from training two and a half months later (mid March) I pulled the carbs again to try and figure out what I had messed up checked the float bowl levels, pilot screw adjustment, cleaned the jets and passages. She fired right up with about half choke and ran like a bandit, but I needed to sync the carbs and didn't do it. I parked it again and left for deployment (didn't drain the fuel tank, forgot to put in fuel stabilizer) two weeks later, my deployment got cancelled and I came home again. Since then, it hasn't wanted to start at all. I'll crank and crank and crank, she'll fire up for about one second, sputter and die. If I try and give it a little gas and this will kill it right away. Right now, she seem to want no choke, no throttle. I haven't drained the tank at all or added fresh fuel, but the gas is only a month and a half old.
Oh yeah, the bike is a '83 GL1100A
What am I missing? Do I need to pull my carbs again and clean everything out?
Thanks in advance.
I pulled the carbs in December for a quick tune up and replaced the intake seals and the bike became difficult to start, wanted no choke, no throttle, and LOTS of cranking before it would fire up. About two weeks later, I winterized it preparing to go on deployment. When I came back from training two and a half months later (mid March) I pulled the carbs again to try and figure out what I had messed up checked the float bowl levels, pilot screw adjustment, cleaned the jets and passages. She fired right up with about half choke and ran like a bandit, but I needed to sync the carbs and didn't do it. I parked it again and left for deployment (didn't drain the fuel tank, forgot to put in fuel stabilizer) two weeks later, my deployment got cancelled and I came home again. Since then, it hasn't wanted to start at all. I'll crank and crank and crank, she'll fire up for about one second, sputter and die. If I try and give it a little gas and this will kill it right away. Right now, she seem to want no choke, no throttle. I haven't drained the tank at all or added fresh fuel, but the gas is only a month and a half old.
Oh yeah, the bike is a '83 GL1100A
What am I missing? Do I need to pull my carbs again and clean everything out?
Thanks in advance.