startup problem

[Gregsdayoff]

I just tried to start up a 2000 Buell Cyclone that had been parked in a shed for the past 11 years and it didn't go real well. I changed the oil and filter, cleaned the carb, put fresh hoses back in the stock air cleaner, new battery and lit it off. It started immediately, but sounded like it was running on one cylinder and knocking, like in the head. After a minute, I turned it off, pulled off the oil cap and got a face full of warm oil.

Any suggestions for starting up a long idle Cyclone? I plan to take the air cleaner off and route mod-breather and after-market air filter.

I'll open up carb again and try to find the problem. The only doubt I had was whether the main jet seated all the way. How far should it stick up in the throttle body? The main jet holder tube seemed to bottom out with several threads still showing. The flange on the holder was off the deck by about a quarter inch. Is that normal?


Anything else I should check?
Thanks.

 

[Chicknstripn]

I'm no Buell expert by any means so this is just what I would try to do from what you've described:
Try cleaning out the oil tank and removing and cleaning out all the oil lines. Clean out the oil cooler and dissasemble and clean the oil pump. Id do everything possible to make sure that the clean fresh oil I put in the oil tank has an unobstructed and unrestricted flow to the engine. You might have to go as far as pulling the rocker boxes off and making sure the push rods, rocker arms and tappets aren't clogged. This could become quite an undertaking. That is if cleaning all the lines and what not doesn't work. Try the lines, cooler, oil pump and such first.
Anyway, in my armature opinion it sounds like something is restricting the oil flow to the engine.
Good luck

 

[Gregsdayoff]

Good suggestions on cleaning oil lines, etc. It definitely needs it. I figured out what was wrong though and it was my own dumb fault. I overfilled it with oil because I drained the tank but not the engine before I filled up the tank, which had appeared to be "wow, it's low." Also had bad hose on vacuum to a timing advance relay. I hit the starter again and it sounded much better. Now I can concentrate on cleaning and replacing rotten rubber. I'm in swampy southwest Florida, and rubber doesn't last long.

 

[rchuff]

Good to hear you got it fixed . [up]

 

[Chicknstripn]

Sweet! I'm glad you didn't have a more serious problem going on!