Starter fluid?

[Puunjob]

My special needs bike still won't start.  The battery is good the spark plugs are fireing it is getting enough gass and it starts to turn but then won't quite go and then dies.  I have used high temp starter fluid (either mostly I think) to get small engines to start could I use it on my bike and if so were would I spray it I have always sprayed it into the air intake on small engines (lawn mowers and snow blowers).  I think if I can just get it to fire it would work.

[JamesG]

hope springs eternal...

If it won't start and run on its own, what makes you think it will once that burst of starting fluid is gone?


What are your carb settings again?

[Puunjob]

My carb settings are all stock I cleaned them and now it won't fire.  The reason i thought it might work is because it always did on the small engines they wouldn't start spray some stuff and they started fine it just needed that little help

[Kerry]

I've never used starter fluid on my GS500, but if I did I guess I would...



EDIT: Changed link from sisna.com to bbburma.net

[JamesG]

Can't hurt. but I doubt it will fix the cause of your problem...

[The Buddha]

I'd check hose routing and choke cable connection etc..
Cool.
Srinath.

[Briggs]

Also make sure you put your carbs back together perfectly.

[scratch]

One thing I experienced this weekend while lubing my cables, is when I was loosening the choke cable, the end would jump out of its housing on the right carburetor, causing the choke to not shut fully and remain open. Interesting.

[Puunjob]

[One thing I experienced this weekend while lubing my cables, is when I was loosening the choke cable, the end would jump out of its housing on the right carburetor, causing the choke to not shut fully and remain open. Interesting.]


something similar happened when I cleaned my carbs the metal slide popped off of the two pieces that it is supposed to pull out ont he side of the carbs causing my choke to do nothing at all[/quote]

[yamahonkawazuki]

wd-40 (the flammable kind) works well, (got my sitting for a year, w/ year old gas to start and run), spray into either the airbox, or remove plugs, spray into plug hole, do not overspray, and then replace plugs and start. if bike is capable of starting and running, it should do the trick