As spring is almost with us had to do first cut of grass on Saturday still a nice day sun shining and not too cold so pulled the softail out of the shed
Checked the bike over turned the fuel on pulled the choke nob out snapped throttle open about 4 times to get a good squirt of fuel down the throat of the carb turn power on and press starter engine turns over fires right up
Go to back shed pull the dyna out and same procedure engine cranks and cranks no fire turn off try again and again after about 10 minutes it eventually fires
Today Sunday weather fine again decided to pull dyna out of shed and investigate bad starting pulled the air cleaner it was dirty and had some oil on from the head breathers so it went into a bucket of warm soapy water
Tried opening throttle whilst looking in the carb no swuirt of fuel from the accelerator pump
Pulled the carb to investigate I found that the accelerator pump rod was covered in a mix of oil and dirt some carb cleaner and a tooth brush and all moving again a good clean up and reassembly of carb refit to bike and all is well again
Perhaps now It is about time to pull the rocker covers and replace the umbrella valves
Hers is hoping that your bike wake up problems after the winter sleep are as easy to solve as mine
Brian
Checked the bike over turned the fuel on pulled the choke nob out snapped throttle open about 4 times to get a good squirt of fuel down the throat of the carb turn power on and press starter engine turns over fires right up
Go to back shed pull the dyna out and same procedure engine cranks and cranks no fire turn off try again and again after about 10 minutes it eventually fires
Today Sunday weather fine again decided to pull dyna out of shed and investigate bad starting pulled the air cleaner it was dirty and had some oil on from the head breathers so it went into a bucket of warm soapy water
Tried opening throttle whilst looking in the carb no swuirt of fuel from the accelerator pump
Pulled the carb to investigate I found that the accelerator pump rod was covered in a mix of oil and dirt some carb cleaner and a tooth brush and all moving again a good clean up and reassembly of carb refit to bike and all is well again
Perhaps now It is about time to pull the rocker covers and replace the umbrella valves
Hers is hoping that your bike wake up problems after the winter sleep are as easy to solve as mine
Brian