02 Deuce Starting Issue
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02 Deuce Starting Issue
Hey,
2002 Deuce was my dads now my sons. Pretty much stock and never had any issues with it. Suddenly it doesn’t want to start when it sits for a couple day. Cranks but nothing. Plugs look fine. Spray a tiny bit of starting fluid in air cleaner area fires right up and runs fine. Any thoughts?
edit: it’s fuel injected.
2002 Deuce was my dads now my sons. Pretty much stock and never had any issues with it. Suddenly it doesn’t want to start when it sits for a couple day. Cranks but nothing. Plugs look fine. Spray a tiny bit of starting fluid in air cleaner area fires right up and runs fine. Any thoughts?
edit: it’s fuel injected.
Last edited by landiscarrier; Jul 26, 2024 at 06:05 PM.
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From: Shelton Washington
Hey,
2002 Deuce was my dads now my sons. Pretty much stock and never had any issues with it. Suddenly it doesn’t want to start when it sits for a couple day. Cranks but nothing. Plugs look fine. Spray a tiny bit of starting fluid in air cleaner area fires right up and runs fine. Any thoughts?
2002 Deuce was my dads now my sons. Pretty much stock and never had any issues with it. Suddenly it doesn’t want to start when it sits for a couple day. Cranks but nothing. Plugs look fine. Spray a tiny bit of starting fluid in air cleaner area fires right up and runs fine. Any thoughts?
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Hey,
2002 Deuce was my dads now my sons. Pretty much stock and never had any issues with it. Suddenly it doesn’t want to start when it sits for a couple day. Cranks but nothing. Plugs look fine. Spray a tiny bit of starting fluid in air cleaner area fires right up and runs fine. Any thoughts?
2002 Deuce was my dads now my sons. Pretty much stock and never had any issues with it. Suddenly it doesn’t want to start when it sits for a couple day. Cranks but nothing. Plugs look fine. Spray a tiny bit of starting fluid in air cleaner area fires right up and runs fine. Any thoughts?
Is it a carb bike? And it doesn't start with the enricher pulled out when cold, but starts with starting fluid sprayed into the carb?
If so, it could be fuel related.
When is the last time the carb was cleaned? The vacuum petcock was checked? Any signs of the fuel, aft the petcock in the fuel line, is leaking past the carb (float needle).
It is possible that when it sits for a day, a little fuel leaks out and just cranking will not create enough vacuum to open the vacuum petcock (faulty/dirty), allowing fuel to flow to the carb. When it kicks over on starting fluid, it's enough vacuum to allow for the fuel to flow through the vacuum petcock as needed.
I would check the vacuum petcock (who am I kidding, I always just remove them and replace them with a real petcock, often a Pingel), and the petcock's vacuum line to the carb.
Then I would clean and rebuild (if necessary) the carb...
Again, just my guess based on your report.....
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From: Trinidad
Hey,
2002 Deuce was my dads now my sons. Pretty much stock and never had any issues with it. Suddenly it doesn’t want to start when it sits for a couple day. Cranks but nothing. Plugs look fine. Spray a tiny bit of starting fluid in air cleaner area fires right up and runs fine. Any thoughts?
edit: it’s fuel injected.
2002 Deuce was my dads now my sons. Pretty much stock and never had any issues with it. Suddenly it doesn’t want to start when it sits for a couple day. Cranks but nothing. Plugs look fine. Spray a tiny bit of starting fluid in air cleaner area fires right up and runs fine. Any thoughts?
edit: it’s fuel injected.
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