motorcycle maintenance

motorcycle maintenance

I haven't started my bike for 2 years, besides changing the battery is there anything else I should be aware of before starting it?

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Apr 29, 2008

motorcycle maintenance
by: Anonymous

it is a 1996 suzuki savage ls650 i bought off a friend who last rode it before he deployed to iraq and never rode it since, i dont know about bikes it is my first so i dont know what kind of fuel injectors it is. i just need to know what to be aware of and if i should turn the bike on after i have replaced the battery.

Apr 29, 2008

What Lauren said, and....
by: Quicklimegirl

also if it wasn't drained, there's a good chance the idle passageway in the carb (known as the "pilot jet" is gummed up enough that it won't start or idle, or if you can get it started with the choke, it will die once you try to take the choke off. What bike is this, what kind of setup (carbs or fuel injection?). Injectors will get gummed up.

Please provide detailed info on the year, model and number of cylinders, and whether it's carbs or injector, and we can help you more.

Apr 29, 2008

WAIT !!
by: Lauren

you must change the old stinky gas and clean out the gas tank. Gas has separated into its components and/or additives. If you run that 2 year old gas thru it, it will gum up the lines, the carb, the fuel filter. Hopefully, when you parked it, you turned the gas off. If not, youre gonna have to clean the carb now also. Gas settles in the carb bowls and forms varnish in the bowls. DONT RUN IT THRU NOW ! It will gum up the entire system.

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