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I've been beavering away getting an '80 Interstate into excellent running order. It is mostly all back together & I wanted to start it & get pleasure from just listening to it. I had run it about a month ago & knew it ran OK
Put it in driveway ( only -2°C, maybe 28°F & miserable) with a freshly charged battery. Pulled out choke & attempted to start it. It sort of fired up on full choke but kept dying. No combination of choke & throttle would get it to run for more than a few seconds. I never cranked it formore than 10 sec at a time then waited a bit before trying again.
No luck & eventually the battery quit. I was more than a little upset!
Had lunch & suddenly remembered I had forgotten to turnon the gas at the petcock
Downstairs to the garage again, put another fully charged battery in & tried again, with the petcock on "ON". Fired up easily. Iran it until the cooling fan had been through a few cycles then brought it back in for the winter.
At least I got the pleasure of hearing it run & it sounded great.
I have more than 50 years of working on motorcycles but at my advanced age forgot the simplest of things. Ah well, I wonder what I will forget next
I've been beavering away getting an '80 Interstate into excellent running order. It is mostly all back together & I wanted to start it & get pleasure from just listening to it. I had run it about a month ago & knew it ran OK
Put it in driveway ( only -2°C, maybe 28°F & miserable) with a freshly charged battery. Pulled out choke & attempted to start it. It sort of fired up on full choke but kept dying. No combination of choke & throttle would get it to run for more than a few seconds. I never cranked it formore than 10 sec at a time then waited a bit before trying again.
No luck & eventually the battery quit. I was more than a little upset!
Had lunch & suddenly remembered I had forgotten to turnon the gas at the petcock
Downstairs to the garage again, put another fully charged battery in & tried again, with the petcock on "ON". Fired up easily. Iran it until the cooling fan had been through a few cycles then brought it back in for the winter.
At least I got the pleasure of hearing it run & it sounded great.
I have more than 50 years of working on motorcycles but at my advanced age forgot the simplest of things. Ah well, I wonder what I will forget next
