Re: HARD TO START

Posted by vern401 on Jun 05, 2010; 2:24am
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If i'm correct you bike has the CV carbs on it. If it does make sure the slides that move the needle inside the carbs all move freely. My CX 500C was acting simelar to your Discription and one of the slides was hanging up on it. Do a real thurough cleaning of the carbs ensure ALL ports and jets are clean. Check the spark on your plugs you should have a nice strong spark if you find 1 or 2 are weak it may be a coil or points or condensor problem. Syncing the carbs does help the idle allot but out of sync carbs will no accelerate properly as on carb is trying to feed faster than the others. Make sure your floats are set correctly to little or to much fuel in the bowls will effect how the bike starts and runs. If you have a compression tester what is the compression of your cylendars? If I think of anything else I'll let you know so you can be back to enjoying your bike not fighting to start it.