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Okay guys, so far I've taken my 550 out of seven year storage, stripped the carbs and cleaned them intensively, installed a set of points and timed them using Earl's method, but the bike still won't go. There's plenty of compression and plenty of spark, but I have new plugs in the bike and can't tell how wet they're getting. Any suggestions as to what to try next?
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You never said if you checked to see if fuel is actually getting to the cylinders. I would suggest trying that. -
Well I am probably not the one to be answering questions, since I took my carbs all apart and put them back, but I have not tried to start mine yet. Anyway, I did fill the carbs while they were in the vise and found you need a lot of gas to fill the bowls all the way. The end two carbs get filled after the center two fill up, so I would slowly take the two outside carb bowl drain screws out to see if there is gas in the bowls. If there is none there check the center two. I was messing around with the petcock and if you didn't prime them it looks like it will take a long time unless you are in the prime position. Anyway I would check to see if all carbs have gas.Comment
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cv's
If its got cv's fitted, they can sometimes exhibit weird effects after theyve been off and emptied, Ive had to choke them by hand with my hands over the inlets before now on quite a few bikes, and the bike's sort of started on the cylinder I was choking and dragged the other 3 in one by one. My pain in the bum 550 used to do this after Id taken the carbs off to clean them (yet again)..
Weird because every time the bikes been fine at starting and ran sweet as a nut since..
I had spark, fuel tap on prime, the lot, still cant work it out...
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Thanks for the help Guys. I will let you know how it turns out.
Craig :roll:Comment
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