Choke is killing me

I have a 02 sportster, and after taking it out after long winter storage, it will only run with the choke fully open. I also noticed the battery isn't holding a charge well. Could the battery be the cause of it only running at full choke???:witsend: I did have the battery on a trickle charger for the winter.

Ya might wanna run some fuel injection/carb cleaner through it before anything else. 'Might have some gunk in the carb or injectors. JMO

your jets are super dirty ! clean the carb it will work like brand new. batt has nothing to do with it

Could be bad gas, and could be that your carb float is stuck and you're flooding it. Either way, getting some carb cleaner fluid into it will help you figure it out. How long has it been sitting?

A bad battery can cause some weird symptoms, but needing choke is not a known one to me.

BaggerPaul is right, the gas screwed up the jets and or narrow passages. Happens all the time now when carbs sit with un-stabilized gas in them. Best thing for extended storage is run carb dry, drain float bowl drain gas tank and allow tank to breath so you won't get condensation in it. Short term storage, get some of the newer types of fuel stabilizer made for gasoline that contains alchol. Treat a FULL tank of gas and make sure the treated fuel gets into the carb.

Marc:

Do you add some of that stabilizer with each full gas tank, or is it only during that winter
storage that you use it???

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I did put fuel stabilizer in back in oct. but just started it last wk. i did let it warm up for about five min and then drove it. at any time i pushed the choke in, died instantly. thanks for the advise

only put stabilizer in for the winter months that its parked

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At least your choke isn't choking you. :roflmao:
The stabilizer may not have made it into the interior of the carbie. Take it apart, clean and/or rebuild it.

I've never used stabilizer. I'll shut my gas off then run it till she dies. My bike is 14 years old this June 19th. I treat all my gas engines toys that way. Lawn mower power washer,,,, never an issue. I use seafoam in the tank.

Yup. When I know bike is going to be down a while, I shut the gas valve and run it until the carb runs out of gas. Won't take long. I use Seafoam. Kept a tank of gas for about 4 months without riding with Seafoam in it. Started it up and ran the old gas. No problem.