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So my bike has become so difficult to start as of late. It's come on so suddenly that the problem literally began between two starts. No symptoms between at all; before it would start within a few seconds of cranking - now it takes more than 20, and you have to nurse the gas up and down to get it to catch correctly.
Well I cranked the thing so long a few days ago (maybe 30 seconds straight a couple times in a 5 min span) that I burned out the starter.
I pulled it out - one electical connector, two cover bolts and two 10mm starter bolts and it's out. It turns out that I'd fried the two positive terminal brushes so badly that the wires broke off and the heat from the overheated wires burned through the protective anti-grounding sheaths. The brushes still had a lot of material left though, but were unusable sans the wires.
So I went to skycraft electronics in the hope that they'd have the brushes. They didn't have exactly what I needed, but they had brushes with the right profile dimensions to fit in the channels. I used a carbon cutting disc on my circular saw to grind em down a bit so they wouldn't be too long. I soldered their leads to the leads on the starter, put protective sheathing on the wires so they wouldn't ground, and put it all back in. The starter spun like new again - though the bike still takes a while to start for some reason.
Stuff I've checked: spark - blue on all plugs
It smells pretty heavily of fuel when it's cranking and not firing.
It won't idle below 2,000, and even that takes a lot of fiddling with the choke (about 1/8 of it will hold it there) to get it to settle right. It idles at 5,000 on full choke. Otherwise runs fine.
eh?
Well I cranked the thing so long a few days ago (maybe 30 seconds straight a couple times in a 5 min span) that I burned out the starter.
I pulled it out - one electical connector, two cover bolts and two 10mm starter bolts and it's out. It turns out that I'd fried the two positive terminal brushes so badly that the wires broke off and the heat from the overheated wires burned through the protective anti-grounding sheaths. The brushes still had a lot of material left though, but were unusable sans the wires.
So I went to skycraft electronics in the hope that they'd have the brushes. They didn't have exactly what I needed, but they had brushes with the right profile dimensions to fit in the channels. I used a carbon cutting disc on my circular saw to grind em down a bit so they wouldn't be too long. I soldered their leads to the leads on the starter, put protective sheathing on the wires so they wouldn't ground, and put it all back in. The starter spun like new again - though the bike still takes a while to start for some reason.
Stuff I've checked: spark - blue on all plugs
It smells pretty heavily of fuel when it's cranking and not firing.
It won't idle below 2,000, and even that takes a lot of fiddling with the choke (about 1/8 of it will hold it there) to get it to settle right. It idles at 5,000 on full choke. Otherwise runs fine.
eh?
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