It's sulking

Benly will not start. It sounds as though it wants to start it just
isn't catching. I've given it a squirt of easy start and turned it
over still no joy.

What next? How long shall I keep truning it over while for whilst
balancing the not flattening the battery thing?

 

It's got a kickstarter, hasn't it? Use that. If that fails, try bumping
it.

In winter, I wouldn't trust the 6v electric starter on a Benly to turn
over a pancake, much less an engine.

 

In

Juggling a Benly ... cool

It's probably flooded with petrol now. Take the plugs out and dry them out.

Leave them out for a while to let the combustion chambers dry out too.

Then put the plugs back in and try again.

--
Steve Parry
K1200GT SE & F650
'87 Yamaha FS1 & Sukida SK90PY
and a VW Passat SE Estate for comfort
www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

Check the spark.

Check the spark.

Put the battery on charge while you have dinner and then check the
spark.

If it won't fire on EZStart then you, for whatever reason, don't have
the right sort of spark.

 

Kick start is a possiibility but I want a vaguely reliable electrical
system before the elephant.

heh.

 

That involves taking more bits off and looking at the spark plugs
doesn't it?

Battery is fully charged, it was on trickle charge before I attempted
to start it.

New spark plugs then. Bugger. Too busy to fettle.

 

Only the plug cap, if you have a spare plug.

It may not start first time and you have pounded it already.

Not yet. Flooding has been suggested, perfectly reasonable and
sometimes can be cured by putting the battery on charge while you have
dinner.

 

You won't get it with a 6v Benly. Even in a British winter, with a new
battery, it struggles. The kickstart always lights the fires, though.

Well, actually, yes,the 6v starter *is* reliable. You can rely on it not
to start the bike in cold weather.

 

No. Both plugs are accessible without having to remove anything.

 

convert it to 8V.

wonder if you can do that on a Benly? It workwed on the CB100N, on which
the operating voltage is determined by the battery.

Mind, if you carelessly put a 25W headlamp in it, not a 36W one, it blew it
in about 2 hours of use.

36W ones used to last about a month.

 

Mind, I've never found easy-start to be any use on petrol engines. diesels,
yes. Although it's bad for them.

 

<gets out handbook>

Oh right. It's too cold to go back outside now and I've still work to
do, this is my ukrm tea break.

 

FFS. It's a Benly. The original indestructible bike. It takes a nuclear
detonation to stop one running. Just use the effing kickstarter.

 

This might be the most ridiculous thing I ever read on UKRMC

 

Used to work on my old Mini.

 

Yes. You want a Desmo paraffin sump heater like your grandfather
put under the engine on frosty nights as he couldn't be bothered
with antifreeze.

 

Heating plugs works - I've used it several times on various bikes. But,
fopr the umpteenth time, the problem here is not that the bike is
knackered. It's just that it has a crap electric starter system, and the
kickstarter is the solution. Only Nina doesn't seem to have tried to use
it.

I've owned half a dozen 6v CD200s and they *all* do that, sir.

 

We had those when we lived in Sweden, when I was a nipper. Mind you, in
Sweden you needed them.

ISTR that nowadays Scandinavian cars have electrically heated engine
blocks. You can sort of plug them into standing power points to prevent
the lumps from freezing solid.

Can anyone confirm?

 

The Older Gentleman ( (The Older Gentleman))
gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Yup.

Cousins-in-law on the edge of Stockholm have exactly that setup. A socket
just under the front bumper, a 240v socket-onna-stick by their parking
spaces, and a male-to-male extension lead in the boot.

-10degC, 6" of snow overnight - the windows are clear and the interior
toasty by the time you've got your seatbelt on.

You see the socket-onna-stick everywhere. Many outdoor carparks -
including offices - have 'em.

 

bloody dangerous, those. I made one (temporary) with 3-pin plugs on, and it
managed to bite me several times, by having live plugs in unexpected manner.