I'm having trouble again with the Tenere ('86),this time with kick starting hot.Now when I say hot,I mean in the range of 170-200 degrees centigrade as measured on my trail tech vapor.
If it's ridden and sat a while,say 10mins and you try to restart it will "catch" but even with or without throttle it'll die.Then you're left with a flooded engine and a near heart attack as you spend 5 mins kicking it over!Also it'll do a massive backfire and flames out the exhaust when trying to find tdc occasionally and sometimes spit back into the carb and a nice wee explosion in the airbox too.
After my trail ride yesterday,I decided I've had enough of this.
I have changed my pilot jet to a #50,the main jets have been drilled out,head has been ported,airbox opened up etc etc.
When I added the new pilot jet,I ended up with a near stock setting of the idle mixture screw of about 2 turns out.It ran fine at this until about 2 weeks ago.
I adjusted it tonight back to 1 turn out and the bike didn't like being on the idle circuit when riding,surged and farted a wee bit.So adjusted it to 1 1/2 turns and it's running fine.
I tried a few times to get it too play up and not start hot,but it was starting perfectly.
I have found when I tried the mixture screw out more than 2 1/2 turns,when the bike is idling for too long,be it in traffic or on the sidestand,the revs would drop and the engine would die.Most likely it'd flooded itself.
One thing I am wanting to try also is a new float valve,but I'd imagine it'd be a Yamaha only part.

Anyone got any suggestions?