Well you see, i had not eaten today so the consistency was mostly…….
No my 850 has a steel tank. My 750 s is glass but it’s fine for now.
Hard starting, trouble idling, boyer failing?
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No my 850 has a steel tank. My 750 s is glass but it’s fine for now.
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I haven't ridden my Norton for a four months (wife health problems) and this morning we had our annual kick start only bike run and at 7:30 am went to start the Norton, there was still some oil in the tank, was down a little so started to kick it over with no luck at all after about 8 kicks, so I undone the drain plug and there it was more oil in the sump than what I thought, after draining and putting back in the oil tank it fired up on second kick, 200mile ride it fired up first kick every time and ran great didn't miss a beat all morning, was a great day out.
When kicking your Norton is there any sign of it trying to fire, check the simple things first, but I be looking at the pilot jet after looking at the rest, spraying the pilot hole won't fix it if it clogged the wire trick is the only way to unblock it, then the spray, I never had the broken wire at the pick-up with my old boyar but it does happen.
It don't have to sit for the pilot jet to block it can build up over time even riding the Norton as it did for me a long time ago and even then took me 2 carb pull downs before I got it unblocked with the wire trick, mine was the left carb but it kept firing on one cylinder at the time of blockage.
Ashley
When kicking your Norton is there any sign of it trying to fire, check the simple things first, but I be looking at the pilot jet after looking at the rest, spraying the pilot hole won't fix it if it clogged the wire trick is the only way to unblock it, then the spray, I never had the broken wire at the pick-up with my old boyar but it does happen.
It don't have to sit for the pilot jet to block it can build up over time even riding the Norton as it did for me a long time ago and even then took me 2 carb pull downs before I got it unblocked with the wire trick, mine was the left carb but it kept firing on one cylinder at the time of blockage.
Ashley
