I have posted here before cleaning out my carbureator. Anyway, I am at the last step where I put everything back together, start it, balance the carbs and ride away!
Hopefully you guys can help me out again with advice, the past ideas and advices have helped out a lot.
The subject: 1981 GS550L:
- -Battery if FULLY charged via external battery charger.
-The starters cranks the engine
-There is fuel in the Carburetor, checked via loosening the floatbowl screw on the bottom. (At one point, i guess i put too much in and fuel leaked out of the float bowl.)
-It's been sitting in the garage w/o seat, Carb., fuel tank for ~1 or 2 months.
-Cleaned out carb, cleaned out fuel tank (of rust) with new manifold boots, and new fuel line.
So here's the problem:
- It won't start without starter fluid sprayed into the air intake. And when I do, ~1 min later it slowly goes lower and lower in RPM until it dies. (After the inital 4000-5000 rpm surge from starter fluid) (It tends to last a little longer if the bikes been warmed up a bit from previous starts)
Also, when I play with the throttle to try to keep the RPM up, it HARDLY responds, w/ about 2-5 sec delay before anything happens. Once, it just made different engine noise on open throttle without increasing RPMs.
No weird colored smoke, No extra smell of gas (i.e flooded engine).
Only thing I haven't checked was the spark plug and compression, 'cause I don't have the tools for that, yet. I was about to use "Put your thumb over the hole, to see if 100psi was coming through" technique. But I figuered if it starts and runs for a little bit, with starter fluid, the spark and compression should be fine. (??)
Sorry for the long winded post, I am soooooo close with lots-o-mistakes and learning along the way. This problem has me totally clueless.
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