LT500R timing

[Kane]

The timing on my LT is off some. It's at the 2-kick start point now, but the first kicks back. If I don't have my riding boots on (which have a steel shank) I'm left laying on the ground holding my instep at the verge of tears. A grown man shouldnt cry. My other LT's don't do it but they're in my storage for now about 35 miles away. Before I go looking at them, anyone here got a good setting?

[gixxer1kr]

this is a good idea for my 86. i cant start it for shit either but it has all original electronics.I just order a brand new ricky stator and coil and cap.I hope this works but why after time would you need to mess with the timing.Something must be going wrong!!!My manual just shows the notch on the timing plate lined up.It dont say anything about setting the timing nad how would u time a 2 stroke engine.

[Kane]

The engine is completely rebuilt, having had the stator replaced. The timing is done thru the slots on the stator plate. They allow you to advance and retard the timing to set the power for lower or higher RPM. Every combustion engine made be it 2 or 4 stroke must be timed. 2-strokes are generally easier due to the flywheel key but are still adjustable if the stator has slots.

[ReeperLT500]

Kane, mine would also kickback as well. What I found out is that my idle jet was too small. I upped the jetting a couple of sizes and starting was much easier. But can you tell me more details on advancing/retarding the timing? I hear ya on the instep. Stupid me first tried to start it with sneakers. It hurt like hell, but I had a cool pimp step when I'd walk. -Mark

[sblt500r]

check the flywheel key maybe it sheared a little.

[zillaguy89]

the only things I know how to time are my old DT250, which has points instead of a CDI. Talk about a pain in the ass...you have to pull the plug, spin the engine till its on the compression stroke and the piston becomes a certain distance from the top of the plug hole, and then adjust the points so that they just barely start to close at that given point of crankshaft rotation. I have no idea what you would go by on a bike with just a pickup and the stator coils.

[bs traction]

on the stater assem there is 2 lines that line up but the screw that hold the stater inplace are on slides to make ajustments maybee your screws loosen up or like mine the keyway sheared in 2 oem wants you to line up the lines mine was all the way conterclockwise and kicked back 4 out of 6 times

[Kane]

Keys fine, I'd always check something like that before posting a question of this nature. I'm gonna try the idle jet. If I blip the throttle just a tad when kicking it starts instantly, so thats likely what it is. I'm currently 2 degrees counter and it kicks regardless of its position.

[Myquadzillalt500rk]

Originally Posted by Kane

The timing on my LT is off some. It's at the 2-kick start point now, but the first kicks back. If I don't have my riding boots on (which have a steel shank) I'm left laying on the ground holding my instep at the verge of tears. A grown man shouldnt cry. My other LT's don't do it but they're in my storage for now about 35 miles away. Before I go looking at them, anyone here got a good setting?

i have the same thing on my zilla 89. it was so bad it snaped my acl and pcl. and cracked the back of the jug. i have ask so many people about why it happens. it comes down to this.the hi compression motors will kick back cause of it nature.and the fuel at startup is to lean. which is the pilolet jet to small.go. up 1-2 sizes.as for the timing. there is a factory seting there. if u advance it a little. it will still kick u back..bad run much crisper..if u retarted it .. it will kick bad less and not be as bad. but it will not be as crisp and strong as for power.i also found that. messing with the air mixture screw.will have a big role in that startup kicking back.start out with a 3/4 ture and work ur way up to the 1 1/2 turn. but a 1/4 at a time. also here is what i have heard that makes hi compression motors kick back like a bomb. very little gas inters the motor and fires. but didn't start.while that gas is still burning in the motor. u kick again and more fuel inters and hit the gas that is buring already. the bomb has be unleashed. well i got my setting like this. 380jet needle on 1clip.160 pilolet jet 1 turn air mixture. it runs good. and retart timeing. .40 over dg pipe and sil.

[bs traction]

well kane just got mine back to gether and set the stater at the factory line backfired twice never kicked back my whant to try that