Ok, ok. Bought my 748E in 2011 and decided it probs needed new belts. Started last week on the button after a new battery after being laid up for w years. New belts and adjuser/idler bearings fitted (supplied from a reputable dealer here). Belt timing marks were checked a thousand times. Turned over ever so slowly using the rear wheel in 6th gear and and also a crank-trurning tool. Always in the correct direction. No valve contact. Numerous revolutions. Belt tension ok with tuner and twist. On trying to start....absolute zero. No bangs Great spark...I have rechecked timing marks and they are correct. Great spark on horizontal cylinder.. Haven't checked vertical as yet... I'm thinking petrol. Bike didn't try to half-start as it were.. I'm well aware of air in a diesel system.. A bleed system . Does this apply to petrol systems too and if so ..is there a start up system to a bike that's been turned over a thousand times dry. The same one that started on the button last week with the same fuel. Anyone any thoughts pls. Don't know if the below link works but..... Katie Hopkins on twitter.... So, so funny. You don't need to agree BTW Live your own life. https://x.com/KTHopkins?t=R9xwCIiQaUaaaCvoyVUBYg&s=09 https://x.com/KTHopkins?t=R9xwCIiQaUaaaCvoyVUBYg&s=09
One thing that sticks in my mind was when she was on some breakfast show slagging people off as chavs because they give their kids ridiculous ‘exotic’ names (and we’ve all heard a few haven’t we?). The female presenter then reminded her that her own daughter is called ‘India’ Just a small example of the cvntery that comes out of her gob. After the Apprentice I doubt many companies would have touched her which is why she’s tried to carve out some sort of career being a social media twat.
Not sure I'd want to spend too much time in her company. However, in a world full of MSM bs I do find her honesty rather refreshing. It's easy to see she'd have limited appeal to the uniparty voter, or those still watching the BBC with their covid mask on.
how times have changed. it used to be me and others that were guilty of creating thread drift. the whoremistress in a 748 thread? wadda miss? yip, sounds like a fuel problem. possibly one of those pesky relays. well, unless you have hopkins in the room, then i guess it could be a lack of oxygen problem. burn the witch.
Ok, ok, I think I may have poked a bear there . Sometimes you need a hook to grab peoples attention. After doing what I thought was all the hard work, I had to stop coz I'd run out of beer so I had no option but to sleep on it. Fuel problem made absolute sense in my spooky mormon hell dream . More so when I recalled not hearing the pump prime. Long story short....... The male electrical plug for the seat unit lights, albeit it a three pin affair, fits into the female four socket connector for the fuel pump. It looked odd of course but it is a Duke. The penny still hadn't dropped in my head. Whilst faffing to get the incredibly short fuel hoses off the tank to check the pump, I noticed the four pin connector that had hidden itself between the cylinders. It started on the button and runs fine. What a dickhead !!!!!!! MOT tomorrow instead of on the pavement with a "For sale" sign on it. There's probably a lesson to be learned somewhere in this tale... I'm gonna message Katie.......
dont be so hard on yourself. it's always too easy to overthink diagnostics. it's like looking for anything, it's always in the the last place you look. btw, you dont need to call Katie, her opportunist populist views she makes for a living will find you.
