barn find- not running

[happyhippy121]

i've just bought a vision, its been stood in a barn for 20years. The engine isn't seized! Its only sparking on one side, i no this would be coil or something but i would of thought it'd still start up on that one side?

[Jimustanguitar]

It's hard to get them to start on just one cylinder because you have to raise the RPM's but that's too much air for a cold start most of the time. There's a pretty good chance that the carb is too gunked up to pass fuel through it anyway. I bet you'd get a sputter with starting fluid...

I started mine on one cylinder once, got down the road about a mile, and the other cylinder kicked in... We'll just say that I can turn down the idle screw with one hand while turning a corner with the other :)

[Night Vision]

starter fluid and wasted spark... oh the memories  :laugh:

[Rikugun]

It's hard to get them to start on just one cylinder

And how! Hell, sometimes it's hard to get them to start on both cylinders! LOL  ;D

Funny thing happened when I bought my Vision. It back fired then promptly caught fire when the owner got medieval with a can of starting fluid trying to prove it ran. Have a fire extinguisher and burn ointment handy.  Oh, and wear ear protetion. Come to think of it safety glasses might be prudent. Not that there's anything to be scared of mind you..... :o  :)

[YellowJacket!]

Other causes may be dry rotted plug wires - check Tigers post in the parts for sale forum, he makes an excellent replacement set...among other quality electrical parts.

Could also possibly be the rev limiter which can be fixed by either disconnecting the wire from the back of the gauge cluster or at the TCI.

David

[Rick G]

The first thing to do is cut the rev limiter at the TCI box, I seem to remember it was the black and yellow wire, (some one correct if I got the colours wrong.)

[jasonm.]

to truly know if you do not have spark. You should remove the sparks plugs. Have them solidly grounded to the head and crank the starter. Make sure the spark plugs are clean. Have a friend helping to look at one spark plug...you at the other. If one does not spark. Do a coil swap. If same one cylinder not sparking...then the ignitor or wires, caps are bad. The caps can go bad but are repairable. The simplest is to get cheapo NGK spark plug caps. part# VD05F less than $5 ea. .  FYI-  The ignitors on these do just die for no obvious reason.  All of this is a process of elimination....spark plugs, coils , wires, caps...ignitor