Hard to start
#1
Hard to start
For some reason It takes me quite a while to start my hawk. I dont know if its just the cold weather or what. I wasnt able to start it at all the other day. For the heck of it I pulled the plugs for the first time and found that they looked oily. Is this what fouling looks like? Its a 98 with 8400 miles.
#2
OILY? Or, carboned up and wet. It may be that your mixture is on the rich side and that's the black carbon youre seeing, and the wetness youre seeing is a result of a no-start flooding condition, so that excess fuel on the plug, over the carbon, makes it look like oil. IIRC, carbon will be black and powdery. Oil will tend to be 'scaled' on the plug.
If it IS oil, well generally oil comes from two places....piston rings, or valve seals. If either are bad, it allows oil to get into the chambers where it's burned and creates hard carbon deposits and scaling on the piston top, chambers, valves, plugs....everything in there.
If the plugs are "good enough", dip them in some gasoline and brush them with a brass brush to get some of the carbon off....then reinstall em. If theyre bad, just replace them. When you go to start it, try starting it with just a *little* choke and as soon as it starts to pick up on the crank, blip the throttle. Always works for me esp when it's flooded.
If it IS oil, well generally oil comes from two places....piston rings, or valve seals. If either are bad, it allows oil to get into the chambers where it's burned and creates hard carbon deposits and scaling on the piston top, chambers, valves, plugs....everything in there.
If the plugs are "good enough", dip them in some gasoline and brush them with a brass brush to get some of the carbon off....then reinstall em. If theyre bad, just replace them. When you go to start it, try starting it with just a *little* choke and as soon as it starts to pick up on the crank, blip the throttle. Always works for me esp when it's flooded.
#4
When I checked my plugs at 11k miles, found they werent OE's and werent that bad, so I cleaned and reinstalled em and the bike runs just fine. Watch the pennies and the dollars will come, my grandma always says that :-D
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