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Starting drill?
91 kdx 200 just wondering if there is one that everyone here goes by. For example on my wr: never, ever, ever touch the throttle till it hits-cold or hot.
for the kdx i usually pull the choke, don't touch throttle and kick the crap out of it, then somewhere along the line i hit the throttle and voila! it roars. Is there an more effective method?
for the kdx i usually pull the choke, don't touch throttle and kick the crap out of it, then somewhere along the line i hit the throttle and voila! it roars. Is there an more effective method?
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Turn on fuel, pull choke on, give 2-3 slow kicks with the kill switch held off and then release kill switch and kick away. Mine doesn't need anything special to start, she's a good girl most of the time.
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mine starts easy. gotta choke it if its not been started that day, or it's been sittin a while and below 60° out. usually starts on the second kick from cold. Almost always a half kick when warm. My 4 stroke buds hate me! still need to perfect starting it using my hand, but they might just lynch me then.
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On my '94, I would make sure the tap was on, pull up the choke, then kick it. It would crank in one or two kicks. Mine is half a kick when warm too.
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Pretty much the same for my 89.Jason wrote:On my '94, I would make sure the tap was on, pull up the choke, then kick it. It would crank in one or two kicks. Mine is half a kick when warm too.
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When cold two kicks with the choke on will usually do it. If it has sat for a month or so as my son's sometimes does when he is at college if you lean it over to the left with the gas on it fills the bowl, which makes it start on a kick or two. If not it will take 5 or 6 kicks to get some fuel in there before it fires. Or you can load it in the trailer and forget to tie it down and well then you will need to fill the gas tank again, air out the trailer, and ........ Well just be sure you tie it down.
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Nope, sorry not 'nuf hair to be my buttKanuckKDX wrote:Wibbens
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BTW..this isn't the question, but a too-wide gapped plug will make your bike hard to start.
Whether that way due to age or mistaken gapping on install.
If I never touched the throttle on my bike..I'd also never get it started.
Whether that way due to age or mistaken gapping on install.
If I never touched the throttle on my bike..I'd also never get it started.
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On both my 95 and my whoknowswhatyearitis $500 bike it's turn the gas on, pull up the choke and kick it twice... they are running.
I gap by the book.
I gap by the book.
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Try adding .005-8" to the gap next time you swap plugs.
Bet you'll keep it that way.
Bet you'll keep it that way.
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Which would make it 0.035ish?canyncarvr wrote:Try adding .005-8" to the gap next time you swap plugs.
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I'll give 'er a try....
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