Flooding?? hard starting.

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Yesterday I went to bring both 09 CrossFires out of the trailer. The 1000 took close to 30 pulls before it fired then died. Then another 20 to start it. The 800 started on the second pull.

I put the 1000 in the garage. Popped my clutches, went through everything. Installed my teather switch. It would not start. So I removed the teather switch. Replugged the main switch back into the harness. It still would not start.

For putting on the switch I had to pull the pipe. It seemed pretty wet.
I was under the impression that the EFIs don't flood. They should always start on the second pull?

Anyone else ever experience hard starting on their CF's

I'm headed back out to pull the plugs. And try it again. Just curious if I'm chasing the right thing or just my tail.

This one has always fired on the second pull.
 

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I pulled the plugs, they were wet. I put new plugs in the boots and checked for spark, all good there. I re-hooked up my tether and checked again, I had good spark once again. Tether is not the issue.

Put everything back together, and she still will not start.

Any suggestions?
 

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Could be a fuel pressure issue but I know my m1000 is brutal to start the first time of the year and have to feather it to stay running for a minute then it doesn't do it again until it sits all summer
 

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Could be a fuel pressure issue but I know my m1000 is brutal to start the first time of the year and have to feather it to stay running for a minute then it doesn't do it again until it sits all summer


Dads 900 is like that, this is my 3rd year with this one and every time she only ever needed two pulls to start. was always issue free with starting. I was reading on some sites about the injectors plugging off/failing. Think I'm going to go rip it apart again. I'm hoping something stupid like frozen carbs (tho I can't see it). maybe throttle body is plugged???
 
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Fuel these days does not store very well even with additives I find the best way is AV gas or c16 race gas. Plastic tanks can loose octane over summer and can be miserable to start your machine the following winter.:beer:
 

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are the plugs wet after pulling it it over till your tired? I would squirt some fresh gas into the plug holes, then see if It will fire.
I know my 10 m8 never fouls plugs,even if the plugs are dark in color. This is because they run 2 plugs per cylinder, lots of ignition power.
If it fires then time to check fuel pump pressure and operation.
 

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are the plugs wet after pulling it it over till your tired? I would squirt some fresh gas into the plug holes, then see if It will fire.
I know my 10 m8 never fouls plugs,even if the plugs are dark in color. This is because they run 2 plugs per cylinder, lots of ignition power.
If it fires then time to check fuel pump pressure and operation.


This was an old thread. ��

But yes it was the fuel pump. The old girl has 4900kms on her now.
 
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