Daelim Daystar 125 not turning over.

Evening all,

Having a bit of an issue atm and was wondering if you could help me diagnose the problem before paying a mechanic.

My bike is failing to turn over when I start it.
I dont think its the battery as the headlight and brake lights come on fine.
When I press the ignition button I get the inital Burr but the engine doesnt kick in. I'm thinking it maybe a plug issue and its just not sparking.

Any suggestions?

cheers

 

Take the plug out, rest it on the engine fins and see if it sparks when you press the starter.

 

Make a circuit that way to test the plug? Any suggestions if it does spark and isn't a faulty plug?

 

Charge the battery, check you have enough fuel, little bit of choke, try again.

 

1. Correct.
2. Unscrew the plug cap off the High tension lead and replace.
After that, at the other end of the HT lead you find the coil. Clean contexts on the low tension side.
After that if the HT lead is not bonded in, but screwed into the coil, replace.

 

Check simple things first, like the battery charge level before moving on to dismantling parts of the bike.

 

thanks guys.

so i pulled what I can only assume is the HT lead out of the engine. gave that a dusting with a cotton bud as the contact is up inside a plastic case. I pushed it firmly into the engine till it clicked in place.
Bike then started up for a second or two and cut out again. I can only assume the actual plug itself is in the block and quite unaccesable - bit of an awkward angle thats all.

Due to the lights working I dont think it could be the battery but I could be wrong.

I'm gonna google how to change the plug and pick one up from Halfords tomorrow.

 

When I stupidly left my 125 turned on in the garage for the week and then started to recharge the battery, in a rush so turned it on after about 20 mins, the lights worked perfect as they don't require much charge, but I had a buzz and no response when trying to start it up. The starter motor requires a lot more power to work than a few bulbs.... A full charge and all was fine

 

Silly question but has it got a clutch sensor cable? When i had the GPZ working on it we couldnt get it to fire, it kept turning over but just wouldnt go. Found it it was the little wire going into the clutch lever was loose and somehow that was what was stopping it from firing up. Sprayed Wd40 on the wire, connected it back up and it worked fine!

 

Put the battery on charge tonight, try it tomorrow before you goto halfords.

It takes more grunt to keep a cold engine ticking over than it does to power a tiny lightbulb.

 

edited for accuracy.

 

What's wrong with you kids of today?
Leave Google alone and try do it yourself.
You may not do it correctly the first time, maybe not even the second time, or even the third, but you'll learn a lot more figuring out how to get to the inaccessible spark plug and remove it by doing it all yourself.
You can do it

 

Thanks mate! Shot me down when i was looking like a hero then

 

What goes around . . . .

 

Obviously haven't realised the sarcasm there then Cab... Give you a few more minutes

 

I recognised the potential straight away, but coming from you, thought it had to be accidental. Who helped you this time? Getting to be a habit isn't?

 

I messaged @CaNsA and asked him for a good response :-(

 

If it is like old Hondas, they will crank with the kill switch off. At least Kawasakis won't crank unless the killswitch is on run. Can be the simple things sometimes too, like me!

 

Cheers guys. The bike doesn't have a clutch sensor, its built to a budget in the finest Taiwanese factory lol.

I haven't got a battery charger but I think it'd be handy to have one. I'll try and get ahold of one before buying a battery.

 

Saying that about the clutch made me think, the last week the bike has been stalling as I came to a stop at the lights and then starting straight up again. I thought i was just not pulling the clutch in far enough maybe but perhaps it is the clutch that's the issue