Hi ST owners.
After a years I finally fulfill my childhood dream and I finaly found and bought an ST1100.
She is 1999, without ABS, 47000km on the clock.
When I took her home, I disassemble all fairings and look for all leaks and potential problems.
What I´ve done so far:
New engine oil + filter + O-ring on oil check eye + new sealing on clutch (small leak here and there)
Fully restored clutch slave cylinder (small brake fluid leak) + new clutch fluid
Rear wheel disassembly - everything cleaned and properly lubricated according to Honda specs
New rear brake pads + fresh brake fluid (rear)
New spark plugs
New front brake pads + reworked both brake shoes
New thermostat + fresh coolant
Checked timing belt
Old fuel out - 15 litres of new fuel in.
After all of this I wanted to start the bike, but when it starts, it stalled immediatelly (but it starts). So I tried again and also stalled. After this it can´t start at all. I checked spark plugs and I found out, they are completely flooded. So I dried and cleaned them and I tried again - but again same scenario - spark plugs flooded, but no will to start.
I checked owners manual, and there is written, when something like this happend, you have to close choke, turn OFF start switch and then crank engine for 5 seconds with throttle fully open. But here is a problem - when start swith (red one) is OFF, bike wont crank because of it.
So, my 2 questions:
1st. Is there something wrong what I can check, when bike wont crank with switch OFF (or there is an error at manual?)
2nd. Why is engine flooded so quickly (when I ran bike before, it rides really smoothly, good power, good start - from that moment bike stand 1 month in the garage). Can be something sticky inside carbs for example? One extra info maybe - when I crank it after few days after purchase it runs for a while on 3 cylinders, after a 30 seconds it changed its sounds and runs smoothly again, I took it for short ride and everything runs well, after that I parked it inside my garage and start doing maintenance.
Also I can tell, it is quiet cold still (around 7°C), but I tried to heat up air around the bike with heat gun.
I just let it be with spark plugs out and let it evaporate all fuel out from engine for a day.
Thank anyone for any answer to this topic, maybe it is just I am doing something wrong, but I don´t want to disassemble anything before some advice from someone experienced with this glorious machines.
Also I hope my English is understandable, its not my native language.
