Difficult to start

[solomonheckler]

Hi all,

To introduce myself: I'm an English fells living in Eastern Finland. I'm a motorcycle mechanic in Joensuu working on everything from Vespas to Triumph Rockets with everything in between. I recently bought, imported and registered a 1991 C3 with low mileage, I've renovated a few bikes recently including a 1987 h***a CBR250R Hurricane, a 1995 TZR 125 4FL, a 1990 Yamaha R1-Z 250 and a 1988 TZR250. The C3 was an impulse buy, never thought I would get to own one but now super happy that I do.

I just finished servicing and getting my C3 sorted, but it still has a bit of an issue when starting.

Is it usual for these to be a bit temperamental?

If I give some choke, maybe half, it fires up after a few kicks but then the revs don't really raise high enough. If I give any throttle it dies. Easy enough to start again but I have to tweak the choke a bit, less choke, a bit of throttle, kick start it again, more throttle, less choke etc. etc. Once it's warm it's fantastic, it's just the starting issue. Carbs were totally serviced, new vales, jets, slow jets, properly cleaned. New spark plugs. Fresh fuel (actually 98 octane Russian fuel with no ethanol). I also fitted Jollymotos.

The only thing that I didn't change were the reeds, there were already carbon reeds fitted which have no gaps or spaces. I have some new stiffer reeds if needed but I don't think this is the problem.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks in advance.

[JanBros]

How did you set the air screw's ? standard is way to lean, I only turn them out +/- 3 quarter of a turn. standard is 1 and a half turn (from memory).

[solomonheckler]

Thanks for your reply.

Air screws set standard. I'll change them and maybe fit the new reeds at the same time.

I'll keep you posted.

G

[Gerrit]

The carbon reeds are most probably the standard reeds, so if they are OK I wouldn't replace them.

[solomonheckler]

Yeah that seems to be better. I'll get it on our Dyno next week and test it.

G