Starwalts..... now this?! (bike started, smoked, and died)

[alois71]

So many of you know from my other posts I had a bike with starwalts. I changed all the parts that needed to be changed.

So I put everything back together as best I can. I have absolutly no faith in my carb (it was cleanded before I bought the bike, per reciept) and there was water in the tank. Instead of getting the residual water out I had the bright idea to drown it in gas and just burn it off. After having a hell of a time connecting the fuel petcock to the carb etc... and realizing teh emmisions charcoal canaster wasn't connected correctly I thought I had everyhting connected.

So I press start on the bike. Nothing but my starter spinning.

I put the choke all the way on and I get the bike to start. Yay. I see a faint amount of smoke out of the front and it smells like burning.

Afer 1-2 min of idle I try to drive it, it goes into first gear, but 2nd through 5th are terrible. I mean they have absolutly no power, I just rev and the bike doesn't go anywhere. (ohh I forget to mention the tachometer didn't work). I pull back into my parking space and realize that the oil cap was left off (don't worry there is oil in the bike). I go to start the bike again, and the damn thing doesn't engage. All I hear is the starter spinning and nothing else, no turnover etc. In fact, when I go down a hill it acts like it doesn't want to turnover either, yet the wheels still spin in gear. (they are not disengaged!)

I am starting to think I just screwed up my engine. But I feel like the main problem lies in my carbs. I have no idea how to clean out the carburetor and I have good reason to believe that the darn thing was just cleaned.

Where do I go from here. Did I just kill my bike b/c of the water?

If I don't get this bugger runing by the weekend I am pushing it into the mississippis!

.Alois71

[The Buddha]

Get all the fluids out ... first step ...
Now starter spins but isn't turning the motor over maybe you fit the starter clutch backwards ...
And the charcoal cannister needs to be thrown in the trash connecting or not connecting it makes no difference ... connect it wrong and it can cause you greif.
I dunno what else ... carbs and starter clutch ... enough for 1 day to spend cleaning it and fitting it back right.
Cool.
Buddha.

[alois71]

Will do the second I get off of work. That charcoal cannister is a piece of crap isn't it.
Will update tonight.

[NiceGuysFinishLast]

yeah, you can't drown water in gas and burn it off... it's more dense than water, it'll sink to the bottom of the tank and go through the fuel pickups first... These engines don't run on pure water. You need to run a fuel additive through to get the water out.