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Message: [QUOTE="rmc_olderthandirt, post: 1170045, member: 68872"] Any gas you put on the plug would be gone after the first revolution. If it revs up then it must be getting gas from the carburetor. Perhaps there is something else going on. Go through the same motions that you would if you were putting gas on the plug except don't put any. That is, take the plug out, leave it out for the same length of time and then put it back. Kick it. Does it start rev up? If it does, then I would suspect that things are way too rich. When you remove the plug you let enough air into the cylinder to lean it out so it will fire once, then it has enough heat to continue to run for a bit before it bogs down and dies again. From there I would approach it on the basis that the engine was flooded. Is this a two stroke? Perhaps you have some gas down in the crankcase which is really messing things up. A puddle of gas in the crankcase will keep the engine way too rich to run and the only solution is to get the gas out, either by letting it evaporate or pulling the plug, turning the bike upside down and kick it over to get the gas to drain out. If it really is the fact that you added a little more gas to the system that made it fire up then it is running way too lean. The fact that it does rev up would indicate that the main jet is functional, so I would try opening the idle jet some and raising the metering needle a notch. Rod [/QUOTE]