thedonal

Hi!

I find that at different settings on the choke, it affects whether the bike will start easily or not- ie with no choke, it starts fine but doesn't keep going (cos it needs a bit of choke for warming up, like) but there's only a few places on the choke where the engine will start happily (instead of the starter turning a few times and the engine not catching).

I am thinking that this is down to mucky choke plungers (battery is fine and recently put new reg/rec in, so no problems there). Is there anything else this could be?

How hard is it to clean the plungers? I'm not all that confident in taking the carbs apart as such, but if it's just a case of getting the air box off and working on the choke plungers from there, I might give it a go. What's to do? Just give em a spray with WD40 and dry them? I assume the sockets they fit in also will need a bit of a clean.

Would the carb balance affect this at all? That's something I'm not equipped to do (and can't afford to chuck at a mechanic at the mo).