Do you have a tank full of fresh gasoline?

Got to start with the very first thing folks do to make their lives miserable, bad gas/no gas.

The second thing they do to make their lives hard is NOT HAVE A FRESHLY CHARGED, 100% fully charged battery.   Oddest thing, a Savage will still roll the engine over with a partially flat battery at a low enough voltage that IT WILL NOT FIRE the ignition module (the black box) to make a spark at the plug.  

Drives folks plumb nuts, that one.    



Next, you need to ANSWER these questions and then provide all the rest of the normal what year model, when did it quit running, how long did it sit non-running sort of informational stuff that folks are going to want to know.

They will likely want to know if you are running a stock vac actuated petcock or if you have gone over to the better working Raptor petcock.  

Why?   Because a bad stock vac petcock can all by its lonesome cause all sorts of odd behaviors, including "screw you I won't start because I'm on strike and I will not provide you any gasoline at all".   Plumb Unionist acting stock Suzuki vac petcocks, drive them newbies straight up the walls they do.

You can beat this unionism very temporarily by putting the petcock in the Prime position and leaving it there until your Raptor comes in.

Air, spark, and gas are all she needs.

If you're breathing beside the bike, your bike has air.

Spark sparks best with a good battery, as Oldfeller mentions. You could verify spark by removing the spark plug, grounding the threads against the engine, and watching for spark as you turn it over.  She also might need a new spark plug, new wire, new somethin'or'nother, but the easiest, most common cure is just plenty of juice from the battery.

Gas should be fresh as underwear. Getting gas from the tank to carb is problematic with the Savage petcock's known problems, as Oldfeller mentions. You could also have some gas delivery problems within the carb itself, mostly caused by skanky old gasoline and the nasty corn squeezin's they put in gas these days.

A little more information would be helpful.

Did it start yesterday.....or has it been siting for a year or more?

Do the easy stuff first.  Do you have spark?  Pull the plug wire and stick it onto a spark plug and ground it against the cylinder or something in the shade and see if there is a spark.

If it is producing a spark, shoot some ether into the carb and see if it will fire up on that.  If it starts on ether and then quits you know you have a fuel problem.

If you don't have a spark try jumping with a battery known to have a good charge.

And you'll undoubtedly get lots of good tips from the knowledgeable guys on this forum.

No lights? First clue.check battery. It's GOTTA be 12.5or better. Check spark leave the plug in the motor. Use another plug in the wire.once you prove spark,shoot ether in the intake.

GEEZ, I thought everyone knew to go back to the last thing they DID to something if it WAS working and now it's NOT..