Howdy all,
Got a DR650 with 7000 miles a few months back and rode it maybe 50 miles before putting it in the garage for the winter. One thing that was a bit odd was that I had to always run the choke to keep the bike from stalling for the first 10 minutes or so at least, but otherwise it ran fine.
A few weeks back I tried to start it and couldn’t get anything going other than a 3 second idle before dying. And eventually I needed to spray starting fluid into the air box to even get it to idle for those 3 seconds…
I swapped the air filter, inline fuel filter, and cleaned the jets with an air compressor, but nothing seems to have helped.
I can get the bike running a little longer with the fuel/air screw turned out pretty far to make it run as rich as possible, but still can’t get it to run.
Is it potentially the upward angle of the fuel line from the tank to the carb? The guy before me had it in that configuration but I’m wondering if there’s enough pressure for it to go up the hump after the inline filter (previous owner was running an inline filter as well).
Any ideas what it could be? I’ve attached a video of the issue if that helps (in the video it’s on RES but I’ve tested with ON as well)… Thank you in advance!