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First start in over 7 months

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hi guys,

going to hopefully have the bike running again this weekend after it being in bits for the past several months. It has been up on a bench most of this time and the engine has not been turned over, apart from when I did so by hand doing the valve clearances a few months back.

Carbs have been stripped, cleaned and parts re-anodized and now look a million bucks :) Also a few other maintenance things and a bit of a tidy up.

My question is, After a standing period of this time, do I need to do anything special before I crank her over? i.e. put a few squirts of oil somewhere etc.? or will it be fine?

AS my only bike, needless to say I have serious withdrawls and just want to ride the bloody thing!

cheers :)
 
Always worth pulling the clutch cover & seperating the plates then sticking a little clean oil on them before putting the whole lot back together, the reason for this as ive just found out to my cost is that the plates can shear the friction material off if they are stuck, this is especially true of cheaper (non stock) plates

Having said that ive just fired up loads of bikes after a long lay up without problems but this time it cost me a new clutch so wont be doing that again as its only half an hours work to save a big bunch of cash

tone:)
 
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Thanks tone - i'll have a bit of a look at them before I turn it over :)
 
Another good idea is to pull the plugs and turn the engine over with the starter a couple of times. This will get the oil flowing to the important areas before you fire it up.
 
Thanks GSJim, will do that as well :) What does taking the plugs out do that tuirning it over with the kill switch on or removing the plug caps doesn't? Still learning here ;)
 
well if you pull the plugs yu can put a squirt some penetrating oil to kinda coat the dry cylinder walls. Also with the plugs out you can crank the motor with less compression to move some oil around internally,check the plugs for spark..things like that.
 
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