Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original
Whats the best way to start the 5 hundie ?
martinfan30:
--- Quote from: alan on April 26, 2006, 12:04:19 PM ---The technique that has work for me for years on all my big bore 2 strokes is, (this is assuming that it is cold) Turn the gas and choke on, next lean the bike over till gas comes out the over flow tube on the carb, then give one slow kick through with no throttle. Then with the kick starter all the way up at the top kick the hell out of it! I have never met a big bore 2 stroke that will start with a wimpy kick. Maybe with the compression release system you could get away with it, but not a KX5. When it is hot I usually just crack the throttle just a touch as I am kicking it. The problem I still have is when it has cooled down for an hour or two and I some times beats me to death before I get it restarted!
Alan :-D
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Sorry for the "post mining", but I tried this method today on my KX5, and it was a first time shot! Will use it again to start when cold.
turtle22:
--- Quote from: martinfan30 on January 27, 2009, 05:42:59 PM ---
--- Quote from: alan on April 26, 2006, 12:04:19 PM ---The technique that has work for me for years on all my big bore 2 strokes is, (this is assuming that it is cold) Turn the gas and choke on, next lean the bike over till gas comes out the over flow tube on the carb, then give one slow kick through with no throttle. Then with the kick starter all the way up at the top kick the hell out of it! I have never met a big bore 2 stroke that will start with a wimpy kick. Maybe with the compression release system you could get away with it, but not a KX5. When it is hot I usually just crack the throttle just a touch as I am kicking it. The problem I still have is when it has cooled down for an hour or two and I some times beats me to death before I get it restarted!
Alan :-D
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Sorry for the "post mining", but I tried this method today on my KX5, and it was a first time shot! Will use it again to start when cold.
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i do every thing but lean the bike over. i will try this today. i had to learn to kick my '01 by myself,the last owner could not start it(hehehe). i found out that it has to be tdc and kick it like ur mad at it :-D
martinfan30:
I have really tried to be easy on kicking the beast. The lean over, run through the kicker a couple times and then kick it like a dog works, but I worry I will break the kicker some day.
Is this a legitimate concern?
Albertan:
I've always used the lean over, gas on, choke on, gas out the overflow tubes and jump on the kickstarter, and I haven't broken a kickstarter on either of my KX500's (1985 and 2000). And they started. I can't imagine the engineers wouldn't design the bike knowing it took a really strong kick to turn over a big bore.
k5abuser:
ooooooooooooooh you will break one so plan ahead and buy an extra one or two .
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