Bandit starting issues

Might be worth draining the carbs and seeing if there is any water in them. There easy enough to get to and use a piece of plastic pipe to funnel the petrol away from the engine so it aint a big clean up job.

It might just need new plugs?

My 600 Bandit use to fire up best with choke fully open and a little throttle when I prodded the starter switch.

That's an option.

I'm going to work on technique first- it's possibly just that, but will get him round to look at the plugs and carbs next.

It has started on 2 mornings, but not the last two...

Cheers for the suggestions guys

Has he had the battery on the optimate? Like chris says the voltage can drop off fast and the bike will never start then

Don't think so- if necessary, we could jumpstart it. I'm guessing it's not that bad, as it started last night- so maybe the cold makes it struggle- if anything therefore just under?

I also need to check if he's switching the lights of when starting- helped me no end.

Donal

Well I fortunatly have a Volt meter on the dash on the falco and when I had starting issues it was because the Voltage dropped below 10. When its cold a bettery loses push as well so low charge and low temp = no start. Low charge and ok temp = may start.

So my advice is get it on the optimate. If it wont start later jump it and if it starts straight off you know the problem.

Cool. Cheers.

A few things I have found to cuase these kinds of issues

- water droplets in the carb - you'll know if you have this as it will cut out in the top quarter of the rev range too
- faulty timing retard eliminator thing gave me intermittent starting
- mouse made a house in my airbox
- pinched feul line after removing the tank!

does it bump start fine? as this will indicate a different set of problems to not being able to bump start it either!

Well- it started again fine this evening- we had a lovely trip to Boxhill.

I'm going to stop by in the morning, as his GF is 5 mins from mine- see what's up.

My money's going on cold start- possibly battery. He's got a charger at home...

Originally Posted by thedonal

Well- it started again fine this evening- we had a lovely trip to Boxhill.

I'm going to stop by in the morning, as his GF is 5 mins from mine- see what's up.

My money's going on cold start- possibly battery. He's got a charger at home...

Cool, is it an optimate (bike charger?) he can leave it on over night if it is and he'll see then if it starts better after a night of charge.

Well. Started fine again this morning. Cuh!