It won't start

[brainbug007]

I think the plugs where the same size, they screwed in ok. I'll have to check tonight though. They where bosch ones I got from halfords for around £20, apparently uprated ones. I know I needed a 5/8 socket tool to get them out. When I had the head off there was about 3-5mm of oil pooled in each cylinder?

[MikeB]

sounds like it was too much oil to me and locking the engine.
Hopefully wont have done any damage, now its all turning freely bolt it back up and I'm sure it will be good!

Next time its recommended to put oil down the bores perhaps a quantity would help I've only ever put a half a dozen drops down.

Still odd it was hard to crank with the head off though

[brainbug007]

Finally got it back together last night and cranking by hand ok again. Strangely though it won't hand crank off the crank pulley bolt once the pulley is on?

Anyhow I got all the auxillaries back on and tried to start it again. It nearly went as I got sort of hollow popping sounds and puffs of smoke coming out the exhaust! After about 30 seconds of about 5 seconds trying to crank, 5 seconds off the battery died on me again from full

So I left the battery charging overnight and tried it again this morning and I got farily regular smoke coming out the exhaust but it still won't start & stay runnnig

Any ideas?

[twinturbo]

Buy a can of "start ya b$%^$%d" turn off the fuel pump and spray SYB into each carb choke.

Then give it a go.

the battery going flat must be a dud battery by now.

TT

[brainbug007]

the battery is brand new though! I only bought it last weekend I'm going to halfords tonight though on the way home to get a belt for the alternator as I'm hoping that will help slow down how quickly it goes flat, can I get this SYB there? Also not sure what the bike carb chokes look like ( I have got the choke held fully open).

[brainbug007]

Also how much of syb do you spray down each port?

[twinturbo]

Choke is just another name for the carb barrels.

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...egoryId_255221

Is more or less the same stuff

TT

[brainbug007]

Ok so just spray it down the air inlet trumpets and how much would you recommend? A quick squirt, a second, 2 seconds worth of squirt etc?

[twinturbo]

a 3 second squirt in each port, and if it fires you will need to keep giving each port a snifter to keep it running..

If that work, you may then find it will start on fuel alone, if not then another go with the gas and the fuel pump running may see it going properly.

TT

[brainbug007]

Good stuff, looking forward to it now many thanks again for all your help!