• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

New to me '01 te 570

Norman Foley said:
I have a '93 WXC350 and had an '01 TE400 and as rancher1 says, pull in the manual comp release and kick through 6 times or so. I do this on a hot stall and bike starts right up.

I've never need to do it on a cold start though. I always found that the secret to starting a single cam, was get it just past TDC and kick it as slowly and deliberately as you can. I got my '93 a few years ago, with almost no time on it, because the previous 3 owners couldn't start it. Fired on the fourth kick and usually starts on the second now. Other thing.... I always drain the carb, when it's going to sit for more than a couple days.
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I will add a little more on this, always drain the carb on the Ducati ignition models (1995-2002) if it is going to sit at all. The SEM stuff (1994-earlier) doesn't seem to mind for a while though but it is still a good idea.
 
I must admit I never drain my carb or tank and mine sits for months fuel is a lot better these days. Since re building my carb and getting the settings right which did take a while it now starts fine. It's all technic with these bikes being a single it has to fire at the exact right time on compression it takes a few kicks that's just how it is.
 
Andy clark said:
I must admit I never drain my carb or tank and mine sits for months fuel is a lot better these days. Since re building my carb and getting the settings right which did take a while it now starts fine. It's all technic with these bikes being a single it has to fire at the exact right time on compression it takes a few kicks that's just how it is.
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NY fuel is worse than ever, with ethanol and other eco additives. The Dellorto carbs on my '03 TE610E and '01 TE400 would get shit in them if they sat full of fuel. The float needle and seat would get crap on it. I just kept up the same system of draining, on my '93 WXC350.
 
Not good! Good quality UK fuel like shell is fine and can easy be left for a few months. My delorto carb is fine now and my bike runs the best it ever has. But if I could find one I would swap to a 570smr carb
 
Ok. I'll keep at it and see if I can get better. On another note. The decompression lever is below the clutch lever which makes bump starting very clumsy. Has anyone tried moving it above the clutch lever?
 
Yeah. I'm not sure why mine was under. It just came that way and I hadn't seen any others for comparison.

I got an easier cold start out of it the other day.

Gas on.
"Choke" on.
pull decompression
6 slow cranks on Kickstarter
3 real kicks with no throttle.
tiny "backfire"
2 real kicks with no throttle
1 real kick with full throttle
1 real kick with no throttle
started

Lol. Hard to believe that's the easiest cold start yet. I'm sure I will get better at it.
 
No I haven't rebuilt it. It runs so good once it starts. I feel like I just gotta figure out what it likes. Every bikes a little different in my experience. Some like no gas PERIOD. Some like a tiny stab of gas. Some want a big handful of throttle. I don't have enough time on this bike yet to know what it wants. I'll get there. Seems this bike wants one kick with full throttle them a subsequent kick with no throttle to start from cold. I'll get it figured out in time.
 
After stripping my carb and cleaning out the jets and moving the needle down one slot mine now starts after 2 or 3 kicks hot or cold
 
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