No Starty or Kick over but will bump....

[RWS74]

Evening folks,

It's been a while and I apologise for this being my first post in ages.  This morning I had a great 25 mile ride to work and parked up in the garage, then this evening at 22:00 I tried starting it with the electric starter which has been a bit hit and miss recently.... then I kicked it over which normally works first time but it didnt start.... I tried this for a while but when kicking over it didn't fire up and engage..... the plug was a little wet but not excessive and there was a spark. I cleaned it up and cleaned the HT lead then tried again but no luck with either the electric starter or kick over....Kick starter is solid on the crack and not loose, there feels good resistance/compression and no difference to usual.

Then I tried Bump starting it... it took a while but eventually it started and rode seamlessly home. I stopped at a shop but when I tried starting it it woudn't start on starter or kick start... but would start with a bump start..... Any ideas please folks?

All the best,

RWS

[henri]

flooding maybe , had you left the fuel tap on , carb mix screw or tickover screw moved out of adjustment .or choke not working , tricky one to diagnose by computer ,i'd start by replacing plug an going thru stuff one by one .
on a different but related note , saturday running errands bout 4 stops an all fine , stopped at nieces pub for a hello/half ,came out an scoot refused to start .after a hour called management n slung it in her van ,grabbed new plug n cap on way home .those swapped an carb/fuel checked wouldnt start til bumped ,so left it on the naughty step for 2 days . went out tuesday an it starts 1st kick an has been fine since ,only thing i had to do was raise tickover as it was low . waiting to see if it does it again now . H

[RWS74]

Ta Henri, I did wonder about flooding, but fuel tap off.

It just seemed strange that once started and a 25 mile trip home it wouldn’t kick start after stopping at the shops? So I can’t see how it was flooded then unless some sort of Carb wear such as float height etc? I’m

The only thing different about yesterday was that I filled up the oil reservoir which although it wasn’t showing with a bubble in the sight glass I put just shy of a liter bottle of my usual brand in.

I’ll strip and clean carb assembly today and replace plug too then go from there.

[RWS74]

How bizarre? It started on second kick! I’ll still give carb a clean though. Ta H.

[RWS74]

Ello Folks, I decided to replace the float valve to see if that would resolve not being able to start it with electric start for months.... just £2 lighter I removed float assembly and found old valve was indeed worn. After cleaning and reassembling my Scoot started first time on the electric start and rode like a dream for 10 miles and I stopped a couple of times then started again on the button without hesitation.