Beating the boredom and still getting your bike fix

[Badger-Roy]

Yeah, remove it start bike, it may be harder to start and require you to feather the throttle a bit till warm. Once warm try cracking open throttle, if it works happy days. If not you need to remove it anyway when you pull the carb. When it's idling may as well spray wd40 all around the inlet as well, 2 birds 1 stone.

Well had a gander at it this afternoon and from what I can see the auto choke has had a “redneck repair” in that the wires have been cut, a hole drilled through it with a bolt fitted to pull the choke out, as iv only just noticed it this means up till now it’s been starting with no choke what so ever, needless to say once I find one il be buying a new auto choke. I then took the top of the carb and removed the spring,diaphragm, needle and slider, straight away I noticed it had been put in in the wrong order, it’s meant to go needle 1st, spring holder feet down, then the spring, but the previous owner had fitted the spring holder feet up, then the needle, then the spring meaning the needle was 1|2in shorter, (how it run I don’t know) so after putting it back together correctly I hopefully started it and it started easily, revved well etc so helmet on and off I ride, it’s going well then 2 miles in it’s start bogging down and dieing again, ticks over lovely but won’t rev.
So until I get a new choke it’s been confined to the back of the garage.

[BB]

revved well etc so helmet on and off I ride, it’s going well then 2 miles in it’s start bogging down and dieing again, ticks over lovely but won’t rev.
So until I get a new choke it’s been confined to the back of the garage.

Bad scoot! naughty corner for you - or should that be the previous owner?