View Single Post
  #7  
Old 01-13-2013, 08:18 PM
edroden's Avatar
edroden edroden is offline
Lite Contributor
 

Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Mechanicsville, Va 23111
Posts: 40
Default Hard to start

Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnny 5 View Post
Had these symptoms with a leaking intake manifold and bent intake valve.

Replaced the intake boot and off idle improved.

Ported head and found the real problem a slightly bent intake valve causing hard start and running concern.

Could get it to start but if I opened the throttle slowley it would die and was hard to get started.

I found before the valve was fixed that if you would flat foot the throttle it would take off but ran like junk untill warm and still ran like junk.

I hope this will help.
Funny, I seem to have a similar issue.
Hard to start, and can't open the throttle more than a little until it warms up.
Idle gets progressively faster as it warms up.
I assume it is a leaky/cracked intake, but the valve issue could come into play.
__________________
'07 Baja Reaction
'05 Yerf 3206 Front end hangin' on by a shoestring
'07 roketa gk-17 -Chassis work in progress!
'08 Crossfire 150R - It lives at last!