I'm extremely frustrated with my machine. It won't start.

The battery is fine, it has more than a half tank of gas, I cleaned the spark plug and the air filter - all to no avail. Today is the first day I had started it in about 5 months.

Any ideas? Thanks. :-D

 

well what types of noises is it making clicking,not doing anything ect.. also did you try pull starting ot if its electrical

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: yamaharap

well what types of noises is it making clicking,not doing anything ect.. also did you try pull starting ot if its electrical</end quote></div>

I forgot to mention that, sorry.

It's cranking, but won't start. The pull start doesn't get it running either.

 

are you getting spark at the spark plug? look at the plug at low lighting and see if it sparks. if it does i would look to see if you ate getting fuel. shot a little starter fluid into the carb and see if that gets it going. 5 months, i would drain the fuel from the tank and carb and add new fuel. i had to clean my carb on my 350 cause it sat for about a year. the carb and some build up and fuel deposits. after i did that can changed the fuel,, it ran great.

 

Also you might want to check to be sure that the choke is moving. Another thing is that it is not in gear. You could try pulling the left brake to override the neutral start switch just in case something is stuck and it thinks it is in gear.

 

i had the same problem when i tried to start mine after awhile....the float valve was stuck closed in the carb it had varnished gas holding it down so no gas would get to the engine take the carb off then clean it out and check to make sure that the valve is open

 

I think it's something with the carburetor or gas. Today, I sprayed some starting fluid in the air intake, and it fired up, and sounded great.
I'm almost positive there's something wrong with the carb.

 

thats the exact same thing mine was doing i could spray starting fluid into the carb and it would fire up but thats the only thing it would run on like it wasnt getting gas from the main fuel line

 

Did you fix yours? What was the problem?

 

that was the problem... my valve in the carb for the floats was stuck by varnished gas so once i opened that up it started right up just make sure that if you clean your carb not to mess with the idle needle that would be the on bigger screw on the outside bottom of your float bowl cover i made the mistake of doing that and i had to keep pulling my carb to re tune it