Not Starting

[Topman]

So went out today, with my fingers crossed. Without choke, or dropping fuel in the cylinders, cranked and... soo close! Choke... almost! All down hill from there, less and less each time. Rested a bit, thought on it. Covered the air filter element with the greasy towel again. Bam! Fired to the choke on the first try. So.. Figure I need to oil the filter element more, which I did, it's now drying, I'll let you know how it goes.

Now I'm trying to figure out the jumping tach needle. Can't rightly synch the carbs if I can't tell what RPM I'm at...

 

[dueller]

So went out today, with my fingers crossed. Without choke, or dropping fuel in the cylinders, cranked and... soo close! Choke... almost! All down hill from there, less and less each time. Rested a bit, thought on it. Covered the air filter element with the greasy towel again. Bam! Fired to the choke on the first try. So.. Figure I need to oil the filter element more, which I did, it's now drying, I'll let you know how it goes.

Now I'm trying to figure out the jumping tach needle. Can't rightly synch the carbs if I can't tell what RPM I'm at...

Could still sync. Drop the idle as low as you can without it stalling and go up a little more to keep it running. Will probably be better than nothing. Does that have a cable or is it electronic tach? Don't know myself.

 

[Topman]

That's true. I plan on doing it soon. Turns out oiling the filter more made all the difference, seems to start up whenever I crank it now. I am however having an issue with the clutch, which I started a new thread on, and haven't had much luck with and that's keeping me from focusing on the tach. The tach is a cable though, I tried greasing it and lubricating the mechanism. Cable is in good condition, so next I guess I'll have to try and take apart the mechanism and thoroughly clean it.