gettin ready to sell it, its been sitting for maybe a couple of weeks... now it wont start, i know when people ask normally the advice is to get new gas, maybe clean carbs and plugs... but would it really need all that after just sitting for a couple weeks,,, god i hope not... trying to sell it on saturday so any help would be awesome... 92 zx6 is the bike

oh and another thing, the regular lights wouldnt work for awhile, so i replaced the bulb and they were working alright for a minute, then they go out and i cant even get the brights indicator on the dash to come on... i am thinking maybe its because its not starting, but im not sure... thanks guys for the info

 

Yes, your bike may have been sitting for just enough time for it to sludge up. Esp if you didn't take precautions before storing it. I had an old CBR that when I would leave and get back appx 5 months later the thing still started. Maybe not right away but after 10-20 minutes. What you might do is what I did. So you don't kill your battery. Just run up and down the street and pop it into 3rd. Then hold in the clutch and pop it out. And keep doing that. Basically bump starting it. It will get more and more closer to the point of igniting. Once it kinda sputters. Then use your choke opr you fast idle lever and start the beeotch. Next you may need plugs. By having it sit you may have fouled them up and is not getting a good spark....Damn it, get in the damn motor and see what's wrong. We can't help you here. Quit whining. You say "god I hope not" Why? What's the big deal. It should take you all of 30 minutes to check everything. Drain the gas, put fresh gas, change your plugs, and general maintenance.......

Dude its not like it is mechanic failure just something that needs to be checked out. It can ONLY be so many things.....

 

whoa.....
take it easy... i was just saying that im working 10 hour days until saturday so it would be a major hassle to get out and get spark plugs and get all that **** taken care of by the time im selling it...

thank you for the other info, though, i was wondering what you guys did for a roll start

 

push it down a hill and put it in gear make sure the key's on

 

You know, saying "push it down a hill" might sound really stupid, but oddly enough I've seen that work, we would mess with it and mess with it, keeping a charger on the battery, shaking the crap out of the bike to try to keep the gas mixed up, nothing, then, we'd push the damn thing down my driveway and "Vroom" it would start, I don't know why that works, but don't discount doing that.


Heck I've rode with guys that had to push it as the only means of starting it every time they would shut the bike off, at the end of the season they'd still be doing that, and oddly enough it worked.

<marquee direction=right> push faster dude!-- </marquee>