Solved... in the end it was the battery. Turns it the last time I took off the tank I forgot to turn the fuel tap back on. The moral is check the battery first!
Long time lurker first time poster.
A little while ago jackasses tried to hotwire my bike without removing the chain so after failing they knocked it over. A guy fixed it for me but since then its always been hard to start. A whole lot of running the starter, throttle, turn off the bike, turn back on, repeat until after three or four goes it will come to life, sometimes with white smoke other times with a backfire. So what's going on? Just went for a ride turned it off and couldn't get it to start a second after turning it off.
Other threads talk about a breather hose but 02s don't have them.
I took a look at the spark plugs and they look fine though they seemed a little oily or was it fuely?
Thanks for the help
Edit so I bought a 1994 ducati monster and decided to see what would happen if I just boosted it... started right away. So that means its the battery that knsckered or the alternator isn't doing its job because it doesn't run indefinitely after a while the revs die. So going to get another battery and see if that solves it!
Edit 2: its not battery... maybe it was part of the problem but not the full problem... so what am I missing
So far I have
Changed the battery
Changed the spark plugs
Changed the Cdi
Changed the starter cut off relay
Checked the fuel tap
Check the hit coils
Checked the pick up coils
Checked the alternator {visibly fine but the resistance is a little high 0.6 ohm for every wire.)
Am I missing anything?
The bike now sparks "weakly" and if I hold the starter it rumbles but still cant get it to idle... is it not getting the compression needed? I went back to my original cdi.
Long time lurker first time poster.
A little while ago jackasses tried to hotwire my bike without removing the chain so after failing they knocked it over. A guy fixed it for me but since then its always been hard to start. A whole lot of running the starter, throttle, turn off the bike, turn back on, repeat until after three or four goes it will come to life, sometimes with white smoke other times with a backfire. So what's going on? Just went for a ride turned it off and couldn't get it to start a second after turning it off.
Other threads talk about a breather hose but 02s don't have them.
I took a look at the spark plugs and they look fine though they seemed a little oily or was it fuely?
Thanks for the help
Edit so I bought a 1994 ducati monster and decided to see what would happen if I just boosted it... started right away. So that means its the battery that knsckered or the alternator isn't doing its job because it doesn't run indefinitely after a while the revs die. So going to get another battery and see if that solves it!
Edit 2: its not battery... maybe it was part of the problem but not the full problem... so what am I missing
So far I have
Changed the battery
Changed the spark plugs
Changed the Cdi
Changed the starter cut off relay
Checked the fuel tap
Check the hit coils
Checked the pick up coils
Checked the alternator {visibly fine but the resistance is a little high 0.6 ohm for every wire.)
Am I missing anything?
The bike now sparks "weakly" and if I hold the starter it rumbles but still cant get it to idle... is it not getting the compression needed? I went back to my original cdi.