Poor starting from cold

The Cagiva era Morinis
clanger9
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Location: Chester UK

Re: Poor starting from cold

Post by clanger9 »

Update 2: it wasn't the carb. It was fuel starvation!

It turns out the fuel intake at the bottom of the tank was blocked with crud. I hadn't realised because the bike was running fine - until I took it out yesterday and it coughed to a halt. :roll: I had to nurse it home on one (very starved!) cylinder...

Anyway, it's all cleaned up and working properly now. I assume the difficult starting was due to low fuel level in the float chamber shortly after turning the ignition on: fuel flow was so restricted there mustn't have been enough fuel for the choke to work.
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