Let's go back to last year. In November I drove the bird back from getting the top installed. I added some Sta-Bil to the gas tank, let it run for five minutes and put the cover on for the winter.
Now this weekend, I changed the oil and tried to fire her up. She turned over right away for a split second and then a big puff of white smoke out of the carb. I waited a few minutes, thinking that I flooded it – and the same thing. I took off the air cleaner and got back fire flames from the carb and gas all over the engine compartment. I put the air cleaner back on and proceeded to adjust the initial timing forward and back and still the same thing.
The engine only has about 100 miles on the rebuild, but I don’t understand why it started in November and not now.
