motorcycle question

[birdmanslopy]

friends dad wanted me to clean up his kawi 454 ltd motorcycle... popped the air cleaners off and the things looked horrible so i cleaned them with some carb cleaner and dried them out, while the motor was running i squirted a few squirts of carb cleaner into the carbs and it puffed a little white smoke cleared up and i shut it off.
30 minutes late i go to start it after putting it back together and it wont fire up and all its doing it puffing white smoke out on random occasions choked and not.
i have a few ideas it might be but figured id throw it out there and see if i am wrong

[AJ_Fritz]

how muck carb cleaner did you squirt down while it was running. a couple steady streams down all of em and now you have a ringless motor. carb cleaner is not ment to be digested. it washed the cylinders down of all the oil and eats the rings right out of the pistons. i did this once when i was 17 and didnt know any better. car still ran but would drink a quart or 2 ever 300 miles.

[birdmanslopy]

second interval squirts both carbs maybe 3 times max each carb, it didnt bog it so i didnt think it was hurting it much.
only problem now is like i said it wont start but if i do a squirt of carb in the box and not the carb itself it runs for a quick second.
making me think that it might be a fuel problem but for all i know i blew the **** up because it ran before i messed with anything

[AJ_Fritz]

might be a plugged up carb. take a compression test.

[nagelandy55]

Try bump starting it.

Check to make sure its getting fuel. Not sure about that bike but off road bikes have fuel shutoffs. If your dad turned it off before he put it away it would run for a little while before the fuel went dry.

Just a thought.

[AJ_Fritz]

street bike have em too :P

[birdmanslopy]

Try bump starting it.

Check to make sure its getting fuel. Not sure about that bike but off road bikes have fuel shutoffs. If your dad turned it off before he put it away it would run for a little while before the fuel went dry.

Just a thought.
the fuel valve is on, but when i popped the line off going to the carb i got no fuel coming out, but i let it sit for 30 minutes and it started up instantly but ran for 20 seconds before cutting off.
thinking it might be in the petcock and its barely letting gas to the carbs.
ill be back on in a few, gonna go check that out i guess

[nagelandy55]

blow through it the opposite way, get the dirt or whatever is clogging it out.

[PvtRanger]

about the fuel valve, most of the bikes i have dealt with have a vacuum diaphram to allow the fuel to flow when the engine is cranking, so if you pull the fuel line off the carb it wont flow unless the engine is cranking. on another note how much fuel is in the tank?? the fuel pick up tube doesnt suck all of the fuel out, so if there is only a few inches of fuel in the tank it wont deliver.

[birdmanslopy]

about the fuel valve, most of the bikes i have dealt with have a vacuum diaphram to allow the fuel to flow when the engine is cranking, so if you pull the fuel line off the carb it wont flow unless the engine is cranking. on another note how much fuel is in the tank?? the fuel pick up tube doesnt suck all of the fuel out, so if there is only a few inches of fuel in the tank it wont deliver.

thats the problem, i pulled the line off then i started cranking the motor and gas was being spit out the other side, how can you fix that? is there an easy way?
tanks full also

[birdmanslopy]

fixed now

[PvtRanger]

not really for sure, i just thought my bike wasnt getting fuel then i found that outi just didnt have any spark, but as for bikes they are pretty simple as for the ignition and fuel, but i am out of ideas without seeing it in person.