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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?


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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! :lol: still need to perfect starting it using my hand, but they might just lynch me then. :blink:
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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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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.
Pretty much the same for my 89.
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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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I start mine by hand. I pull the enrichner up, lean over and push down on the kick starter. Starts on first or second shove.
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Only thing that starts easier than a KDX is this

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Anyone see the Viva La Bam episope where Ryan Dunn rides one of those something like 1000miles to get to mardi gras ?? He stops on the way and has it bored and ported and whatever else they did to it. After all the mods he got like an extra 4-5mph top end speed out of it (35-40mph I think, or was that 30-35 ??). LOL it was a funny episode.
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KanuckKDX wrote:Wibbens

That Avatar is disgustingly funny. Norman Rockwell did a self portrait strikingly similar. Makes me think you may be the model.
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Post by skipro3 »

cold:
turn gas on, pull choke, throttle at 1/4, 1 kick start

Warm; same but 3 kicks in quick sucsession (sp?)

I have the KX kick lever that is shorter if that matters.
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Hey 'Wib you want a 108cc kit for that thing? I've got everything. Crank, Jug, piston, cam, HO oil pump, 22mm Mik, etc...
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Post by canyncarvr »

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.

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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.
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Post by canyncarvr »

Try adding .005-8" to the gap next time you swap plugs.

Bet you'll keep it that way.

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canyncarvr wrote:Try adding .005-8" to the gap next time you swap plugs.

Bet you'll keep it that way.
Which would make it 0.035ish?
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I'll give 'er a try.... :neutral:
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Post by fuzzy »

You guys gap your plugs? :mrgreen: :lol:
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