Hello to one and all,
I am a neebie who has come on here after reading all of the good advice about starting a TT600R, especially with regard to kickstarting a 2001 model!

This has got very difficult recently and I have been following/reading all of the previous information while breaking my ankle in the past few days. I am concentrating on the fuel as the likely problem (so ignoring, at present anyway, all the equally good advice in previous threads concerning the electrics) because I have had the tank off recently and, like a fool, it was well shaken up when it was replaced: I can't be sure that this is the cause but it seems like a "good" coincidence.

So, up to now I have managed to get it going by banging away at the float bowl with the handle of a hammer while releasing the drain screw at the bottom and allowing fuel to run all over the oil tank - having got it under way and up to temperature with lots of use of the kickstart, I then adjusted the kick start decompression cable which certainly was too slack and this is now adjusted to about 1mm of clearance (when hot).

So far this has made it marginally more likely to start but only without any use of the manual choke and only after a fair bit of kicking over (perhaps 6 -10 uses of the kickstart). It used to need the choke fully out when cold and now it doesn't basically, and a "wiff" of throttle helps on occasions when it sounds like it wants to fire; everyone here says this should never be done, but "needs must".

Can I ask you all for your best advice on what needs to be fixed next and does the lack of choke mean that the bike is running rich?


Dave
ps I have a 2004 manual on cd but that does not say anything about kick starting, of course, nor anything about manual choke operation.

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Dave