I’ve had a few issues starting my 1989 trx 350d and I think it might be related to the decompression lever.
At the moment all the plastics are off including the air intake pipes and I want to point out that the choke on the card is seized, also when running there is quite a loud tapping noise even though I have adjusted the tappets.
So, as the choke is seized I have been starting the quad from cold by putting my hand over the air intake to force more petrol in and today I noticed that when it was turning over there was no suction felt on my hand for quite a while then all of a sudden I felt the pull of the air being sucked in and then the engine fired almost immediately. The loud tapping started as normal but this time I just happened to touch the decompression lever and it was almost as though this was getting hit at the same time as the engine tapped…
just to point out too that although there is no smoke on starting if I let the engine run for a while there will be some smoke and this gets far worse if I turn off the engine off for 10 to 15 mins once warm and then start it up again, that said it clears up after a while.
So, my question is I suppose can I adjust or remove this decompression lever assuming this is related to my problem starting to see if it helps?
