Want a 400 that won't start?

[fossie]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265673172187 ... wpvhib6cIP
Fancy that a 400 that has been left , now won't start .
Buy it now £2 grand
Good luck chap!

[Uncle Bob]

Sold already!

[fossie]

How can anything sell for more than the buy it now price ? Why you bid more?
Why would you pay £2100 for a bike that won't start ....you'd have to factor in at least a carb strip and parts ...
Well good luck who ever you are , when it FINALLY starts it'll be a cracking machine

[Blix]

Looks a nice bike though, which is all you will be doing (looking at it )
Also they will have the pleasure of trying to fathom out how to get the carbs in/out with the airbox in place, the joys of a 400.
Saying that I never had any issues starting mine but I religiously started it every week, only issue was a slight wiggle at anything over a ton

[Smallkat]

If it had been a black engine and not in Southampton, I'd have bought it for spares!

[fossie]

The relevance of a black engine? They equally don't start just like the silver one

[Smallkat]

Correct, but mine has a black engine, so to have the spare engine in the same colour might of been useful. That's what I was telling myself.

Then I started looking at a GSX400 Impulse (also thinking about a making it a mini GS1000S Wes Cooley rep) that has the same engine/carbs and Mrs Smallkat caught me and firmly advised me that no further motorcycle purchases were possible until I had finished some of the current projects.

[johnr]

Correct, but mine has a black engine, so to have the spare engine in the same colour might of been useful. That's what I was telling myself.

Then I started looking at a GSX400 Impulse (also thinking about a making it a mini GS1000S Wes Cooley rep) that has the same engine/carbs and Mrs Smallkat caught me and firmly advised me that no further motorcycle purchases were possible until I had finished some of the current projects.

Suzuki actually sold the MK2 400 impulse as an icv/Cooley replica with white/red or white/blue paintwork.

[johnr]

Icv replica impulse 400, for when you want to angrily shout at a bike that refuses to start or run right, but fancy a change from doing that to the kat......

[Uncle Bob]

Icv replica impulse 400, for when you want to angrily shout at a bike that refuses to start or run right, but fancy a change from doing that to the kat......