MarieKaramazov
XS650 Addict
Hi everyone.
Still a beginner over here so bear with me. I was hoping I could sort this one on my own but I'm stalled now. We're dealing with an 1983 heritage special.
Short version:
bike tipped, ate through the little gas I had left upon restarting. Refilled gas, still won't start. charged and changed spark plugs, still nothing. Put on prime and tried to start, nothing.
Long version:
About two weeks ago I parked my bike on my street, which has a slight downward slope. In my infinite wisdom, I leaned on my bike while waiting for my friend to show up, and the bike promptly fell over despite my attempts to save it. It fell on the throttle side; impact focused on the end of that handlebar. Bike seems fine. I get it back up and eventually get it started back up. When I do, it revs up to high heaven--which I imagine is due to all the gas that's flowed into the cylinder from the tip over and now needs to burn off. This time it really went for it and wasn't stopping; it made me a bit nervy because it wasn't redlining but it was getting at 6k RPM (and it was late at night--ie. neighbors), so I shut it off. It wouldn't start again after that. I realized though that I was also going to get gas the next morning as I was already on reserve, and that tip over and then wild burn probably ate through the last of it. Looked at tank and it was bone dry. I got gas and refilled the next day. Still won't start. Maybe I killed the battery fucking with it, so I put it on the tender for a few hours. Nothing. Spark plugs hadn't been changed in a while so I ordered more of those (which took a week ). Finally got those in and still nothing. Charged for a few hours again yesterday since it's been sitting and I've been cranking on the estart. I was stumped till I thought maybe I had burned through enough gas that the carbs were empty. So today I put the petcock on prime for a few minutes and then tried starting it--tried the kick and estart. Nothing.
Ideas? Fingers crossed one of you wizards sees something that I can't because I just don't know enough yet.
(In case it's of any consequence I do have two oil leaks I've irresponsibly been running with: pushrod seal (again), and leak from RH oil cover (gasket needs replacing..but this leak seems to be getting worse). If we strike out on obvious items I can run through some other things I've seen in case it's not something so simple and the refusal to start just lined up with this event.
Still a beginner over here so bear with me. I was hoping I could sort this one on my own but I'm stalled now. We're dealing with an 1983 heritage special.
Short version:
bike tipped, ate through the little gas I had left upon restarting. Refilled gas, still won't start. charged and changed spark plugs, still nothing. Put on prime and tried to start, nothing.
Long version:
About two weeks ago I parked my bike on my street, which has a slight downward slope. In my infinite wisdom, I leaned on my bike while waiting for my friend to show up, and the bike promptly fell over despite my attempts to save it. It fell on the throttle side; impact focused on the end of that handlebar. Bike seems fine. I get it back up and eventually get it started back up. When I do, it revs up to high heaven--which I imagine is due to all the gas that's flowed into the cylinder from the tip over and now needs to burn off. This time it really went for it and wasn't stopping; it made me a bit nervy because it wasn't redlining but it was getting at 6k RPM (and it was late at night--ie. neighbors), so I shut it off. It wouldn't start again after that. I realized though that I was also going to get gas the next morning as I was already on reserve, and that tip over and then wild burn probably ate through the last of it. Looked at tank and it was bone dry. I got gas and refilled the next day. Still won't start. Maybe I killed the battery fucking with it, so I put it on the tender for a few hours. Nothing. Spark plugs hadn't been changed in a while so I ordered more of those (which took a week ). Finally got those in and still nothing. Charged for a few hours again yesterday since it's been sitting and I've been cranking on the estart. I was stumped till I thought maybe I had burned through enough gas that the carbs were empty. So today I put the petcock on prime for a few minutes and then tried starting it--tried the kick and estart. Nothing.
Ideas? Fingers crossed one of you wizards sees something that I can't because I just don't know enough yet.
(In case it's of any consequence I do have two oil leaks I've irresponsibly been running with: pushrod seal (again), and leak from RH oil cover (gasket needs replacing..but this leak seems to be getting worse). If we strike out on obvious items I can run through some other things I've seen in case it's not something so simple and the refusal to start just lined up with this event.