Almost new 2002 or 2003 400 FSE

[husaberg]

I bought this recently for cheap. Beautiful bike with ohlins forks. Replaced fork seals and shock fluid and bumper and generally cleaned it up and greased all the joints. It seems to be about new with no wear on the chain and original tires with little wear. It starts on the electric pretty well but refuses to start on the kick. I did install a MCCT and that did seem to reduce drag some. I also installed a longer kick starter from a YZ 250. It seems to run kind of rich based on the sooty exhaust but it could be that it's just been ridden slowly.

I have read all I can find about starting.....I want to be able to kick start it. I think it may need the ignition timing retarded slightly to aid in kicking. It tends to kick back on both electric and kick starting. I have also read about the monkeying with the decompression. I don't have a problem kicking it over.....it just doesn't start

I once had a slightly out of time (due to a slightly sheared key) Husky TXC that behaved exactly the same.