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Old 07-26-2006, 12:51 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default have ?'s about starting troubles...

my husband has had a 1990 suzuki katana 600 for about three weeks now.
this past week we noticed a gas leek, after investigation, we found that gas was within the crankcase. we contributed this to be caused from a sticking float in the carb, cuz we had gas spewing outta the airbox as well, NOW, heres is the new arrising problem and hopefully someone has the answer. our starter is fine, had it checked, cleaned plugs, yet when we try to start it, starter makes noise but doesnt seem to want to turn over.
we are tired of pushin this thang to get it started and wanted to know if someone had any similar troubles...could it be (hopefully not) a sheered key in the crank? if so, wouldnt it run like caacaa and out of time? or at least have some sort of pinging noise signifying something broke. because theres no sign of a sheered key whatsoever except for it not starting.
i have read every single post in the forums...all 81 pages of a thousand posts and i had seen also something about the cylinoid that the starter wire connects to, if these may be corroded, could someone possibly give me an idea as to where this would be on our type of bike,(if it has one, lol)...thanks a bunch --aZOOMIN--(DAWN AND BOBBY)