I have a 2001 VL 1500. i changed the oil and there was barely any oil in the bike. So i filled up the bike/oil change and 2 days later went for a ride. Might of put 40 miles on it and noticed that i w

SOURCE: 1993 Katana motor just clicking Not starting.

check the starter selenoid the clicking could be bad wire connection or just a bad selenoid..

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Nice 1st bike you can pick up a shop manual for it and have a lot of fun riding and working on it.

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It could be that you have to much oil in the crank case. I overfilled mind and my son could not ride his machine behind me, due to the smoke. Otherwise drain the carb (small bolt under the float chamber. Good Luck

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• Posted on May 25, 2010

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Hi Jeff when you say the engine will not turn over if your saying when you turn the key and hit the start button the engine will not crank over like its locked, if that's the case and you have a fully charged battery you may have a cylinder full of gas causing hydraulic resistance. You would have to pull the spark plugs out and crank the engine to push put the excess fuel from that cylinder,(caution move your plug caps away from the spark plug holes because fuel will spray out and a spark could ignite the fuel) and take note if that is the case you have a stuck float or needle that is stuck or worn on that carburetor.



If that is not the case and your saying the plugs are wet and won't start you can pull the fuel tank and use starting fluid to start it but be careful with that stuff highly flammable you don't need much.

In any case when you get it started your still back to square one there is a problem that needs to be taking care of.

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Lean mixtures burn very slowly, at times slowly enough to continue burning through the power and exhaust stroke, causing a backfire when the intake valve opens, and that flame gets a shot at the new mixture charge.

In normal operation, as the engine slows, the fuel delivery from the main circuit falls off, and the idle circuit is supposed to take over. If the idle circuit flows insufficiently, that becomes a transition to fuel starvation.

You can try pointing an unlit propane torch into the inlet air, and see if you can get closer to an idle while supplying a supplementary fuel source. You will need to do this in a way that gets propane to both carburetor inlets, maybe rigging a Y with vacuum hoses and electrical tape...

This started with work on the carburetors, so the fuel system would be the most suspect. That, and the fact that it will run at higher RPM would seem to rule out fuel delivery.

I was looking around at photos while developing this answer (needed to know whether this was a twin or a 4-cylinder), and one resource said the idle speed should be 1,200. I don't know if that's right, but maybe 1,000 RPM is too slow for this motor to keep it together. (I do doubt that, though.)

When I wrote that last sentence, I started to second guess myself, thinking "What if the fuel shutoff(s) is/are vacuum operated, and as the bike approaches idle there is insufficient vacuum to hold it/them open?" But the I rejected that, because there is even less vacuum at cranking speeds, yet the bike starts.