Hi All Anyone who reads my posting history will know that I have had a long and interesting journey getting to grips with my 1999 610 which I purchased last year. Anyway after engine rebuild and waaaay too much money spent on it I am very nearly the owner of a modern SM classic! I say nearly as I have a problem I need help with. The bike started lovely about 2 weeks ago (usual start procedure ie maximiser/choke lever fully pulled and two twists of throttle.) I went to start it the other day after sitting in garage for 2 weeks and it wouldn't start. Check spark which was good and had recently re-done fuel lines so couldn't imagine it would be fuel feed problem. I took off air box and saw that fuel was spraying out of jet into carb. Mmmmm got fire, got fuel. Now I was really confused! I double checked fuel line and apart from a slight kink in line to carb intake it looked fine. To be sure I got some contact cleaner and sprayed again into fully open carb and then held fuel line so it was perfectly straigh and bang, she started up and once warm ticked over lovely. So is it a fuel line issue??? Does it need to be completely 'un-kinked' to allow strong flow of fuel into carb?? I'd be surprised if this is the case as I thought the carb was fed from fuel in the float bowl underneath therefore ensuring a constant fuel source? Due to lack of space around carb/airbox if I lenghten fuel line it will have quite a distance to to go up the line into carb and without fuel pump I am not sure it would work. Any ideas/advice on my rambling would be appreicated!
