(03-04-13, 09:26 AM)Fazerider link Wrote: That sort of voltage drop while thumbing the starter is to be expected. I don't think that, or the fact that you are having to run the starter for a long time before the engine fires, indicates a duff battery. Quite the opposite in fact.
I'd be more suspicious of the mixture. Are you applying choke before trying to start? My Fazer starts readily without choke in warm weather... in cold conditions it needs it, but it has to be applied first. Weirdly, if it doesn't fire up without and then I apply choke, it just floods.
So, if you've not been doing that, give it a try. If you have been, make sure your choke cable is working i.e. pulling the little bar at the top of the carbs that actuates the four choke plungers.
Hmmm, I'll try bump starting it but I doubt it will work
I've only tried the choke after it hasn't worked, I'll try starting it with the choke on right away. If I try starting it and then put the choke on it doesn't help, I have to take the choke off, keeping trying then it will start.
Would that make my mixture too rich? If it is that should I be turning it down using the idle screw?