eppley wrote on 03/11/14 at 10:15:45:Well, thanks guys, the battery was low a little. Charged it up and still doing the same thing, went right through the carb and the carb is cleaned every hole and crevice, I fooled with the decomp lever and still can't get it to start. Everything is pointing to the valves being open. Is there a way I can see if they are open and maybe the lever is not opening or closing them. Maybe it broke internally.
Take off the valve inspection cap at the front of the engine. From the right side of the bike look through the inspection hole and try to find the place where the decompression shaft pushes down on the rocker arm. The end of the shaft will not be round - about half of it is cut away. The shaft should not be touching the rocker shaft unless the decompression valve is being activated.
If in doubts.....unhook the linkage to the decompression lever and try it.
You do realize that you only need to activate the decompression lever for an instant.....just long enough to get the engine spinning. Then you release the decompression lever and let the engine turn over with full compression. In fact.....in most cases the engine starts just fine without using the decompression lever. The only time that a problem shows up is when the engine has come to rest at the beginning of the compression stroke...the starter cannot get the piston over top dead center without a little bit of a head start.
The decompression lever should be horizontal when not in use.
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