Please help me get my bike started

[dentheman]

Did you mean the AIR cleaner smelled like gas? Never mind, I reread your post, I thought you said OIL FILTER.

[blaine]

Not bad,good to get that old gunk out of the air box.With the bike flooded so bad you should take out spark plug and dry it off, or better yet replace it.While the plug is out spin motor over a few times to clear out combustion chamber.

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by jake

Wow mrlmd1, you're kind of tough.

- yet tell me no starter fluid , which there are several conflicting posts above telling me how to do it.

You have joined a forum made up mostly of MEN; many of them crusty OLD men.... :roll:

We are mostly typical men, in that there isn't much nicey-nice; things tend to be blunt and to the point.
It is not meant to be "tough".

Starter fluid is useful ONLY when one reasonably suspects that there is NO (or almost no) fuel flowing into the engine. It appears that you have the opposite problem; that being too MUCH fuel.

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by jake

well, suprise, it didn't start so I put the seafoam in the carb.

I have an un-easy feeling........
Just exactly HOW did you get the seafoam INTO the carb ??
For it to be effective, one needs to get it into the float bowl, via the fuel input hose.....NOT by pouring it into the open throat.

One can sometimes free a stuck float by tapping solidly on the float bowl with something like the handle of a screwdriver.

And let me repeat that you should ***NOT*** try to start it again until you can turn the petcock to PRIme for a few minutes with NO GAS OVERFLOWING. As long as the gas overflows, you could be damaging your engine if it does try to run.

[jake]

rest easy, Easy, i got it in through the hose. don't know what or where the open throat is anyways!?!?!?? i will give the solid tapping to unstick the float a try. that gas overflowing is troubling.

blunt and to the point is fine, just took me off guard. wish one of the "crusty old men" could come fix my bike! i'm tryyyyying. some things are so fixable with a little guidance and google, others, maybe not. i'm always stubborn and have to give it a shot. thanks again for everyone's help.

[alantf]

When you said that there was a smell of petrol & gunge in the air cleaner box, have you taken the plug out of the drain hose under the air box, to see if anything comes out?(Don't forget to put the plug back in when you've done it)

[blaine]

Originally Posted by jake

Drained the air filter box, black oily, gassy smelling stuff came out, about half a cup. Is that bad? Will drain the carb tomorrow and try to crank her up.

[alantf]

Originally Posted by blaine

Yes, but does she mean that she's drained the PIPE, or just cleaned the gunge out of the BOX?

[jake]

Pipe? What pipe? Just took the plug out of the hose from the box. And yes, I put it back in.

[alantf]

Originally Posted by jake

Pipe? What pipe? Just took the plug out of the hose from the box. And yes, I put it back in.

pipe - hose. Just 2 different words for the same thing. Don't forget I'm English. :neener: