After 4 hours on it yesterday evening this is what I have:
1983 GL1100, my main bike, not starting. last weekend when I went to fire it up first time since Sept (did not add stabilizer, my bad!) it was just doing the very slow "raaau ...raaau ...raaau". You know what I mean, like a tired dog half-assed barking.
OK, great, dead battery.
So I tried 3 others ( I have lots of bikes). With one other one I would do the same slow turns, the other two it would just give me a *click* then nothing.
Lights on the dash very weak etc etc.
OK, great, I have 4 weak batteries now thought.
Fast forward to yesterday. I pick up oil and stuff and a new battery for it.
Plug it in. Same thing. Progressively slower "raaau ...raaau ...raaau"'s.
A friend had cautioned me about fuel in the engine causing resistance.
I was told to pull the spark plugs, switch the On/Off to Off and stand back and watch for flying fuel from the plug holes.
Nothing.
ALTHOUGH I did notice it was turning over waaay easier and faster now. Sounded much stronger.


Plugs went back in, and I tried again. Still the same slow cranks. Bugger!

Ok, well I'm no mechanic, so staying within my realm of things, I painstakingly drained all the float bowls from old gas and went and got a bunch of new fuel from a local gas station.
New fuel in, fuel switched back on, all good to go. And nothing.
Plugs back out to try the flying fuel trick again. Nope, nothing came squirting out of the hole. Plugs didn't look wet either.
Spent a good amount of time on my cell trying to google these symptoms last night before I finally gave up and went home. (bikes at a friends).
Best I could come up with is that there may be some extra load or resistance somewhere?
Like, a rusty connection, I think I read somewhere that someone said the negative off the starter or something?
Could this be a worn starter that can turn it under (paraphrasing what some guy said on google) "light load" plugs out, but not "heavy load" plugs in.
Help! lol
Thx in advance,
Swally.
Alberta, Canada
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