i have a 87 warrior all stock, when i try to start it cold the carb floods out very easily, with or without the choke and no throttle at all, i have to take the plug out and dry it off then crank the engine over a few times then put the plug back in and then sometimes it will start and other times it won't, i have a carb rebuild kit ordered and was hoping it was just dirt or misadjusted, but maybe the timing is off, does anyone know how to check the timing? p.s. if the rebuild does no good and the timing either then it's going up for sale

 

With a quad that old, the float is either shot, or the needle and seat is leaking by real bad and flooding your motor. The rebuild kit should put it all back in spec, just give it a good cleaning and set the float level correctly.
To see if you are in time, you will have to take the round cover off the side of the head, ( two 5 mm allen bolts ) and take the slotted plug off the left side of the engine cover, and the little slotted plug above that. You will need metric sockets to turn the nut on the side , turn it counter clockwise,looking into the little hole on top. Take the spark plug out, it will be a lot easier to turn over by hand. put a finger over the plug hole, and when you feel it pushing air out the hole,look at the marks in the little top hole,you will see a "F" and then a "T", stop on the T, then check the cam sprocket, you will see a little hash mark on the sprocket, and in the head casting, there should be a little point sticking out, the sprocket and the point should be very close if not dead on. If they match up, you are fine, if not, either your cam chain is stretched out, or the auto adjuster is stuck. Hope that is clear enough, I did kind of just skim over the high points.

 

hey thanks, it sounds the same as my honda 200 3-wheeler, checking the timing should be a breeze but i wasn't sure so i wanted to get some advice from somebody that knew what to do. i should have the rebuild kit in a couple days and it has a new needle and seat but it didn't come with a new float so i'll try the old one first and if it doesn't work the i'll get a new one, i am going to try to see if the old float is still good by tying a string on it and tying the other end to a big nut and sinking both in some gas and see if it trys to float for a couple hours, that should tell me if it's still good or not ( i heard that trick from my dad),