Am I in over my head?

[GrizzTorque]

I have a yamaha 200e that sat in my barn for 4 years. ran when the guy parked it. I went out, put some gas in it, and pulled the pull starter. It idled for about a minute then died when I gave it gas. I started it a few more times, same thing. now, a month later, I cant even get it to start. I dont know whats wrong, but I want to get it running. where do I start? what should I do?

[350Xccelerator]

first things first, get a new spark plug and clean the carb

[GrizzTorque]

How complicated would it be to clean the carb? how hard to put it back together?

[350Xccelerator]

not sure how it is on a 200e, but when i got my 74 atc70, it wouldnt start so i bought a new plug, and just took out the carb, i bought some carb cleaner let it sit in there over night, took it out assembled it put it back on the bike and it fired right up. its not hard at all

[GrizzTorque]

Okay, I think the carb is pretty clean because it didnt even have gas in it. For some reason gas isnt getting to the carb, I took the petcock off of the tank and it had some water in it and I think it might be clogged but i dont know for sure.

[vartiak15]

cheeck trailprotrailpro lines. if u got a problem with o rings when putting the carb back together just put some greese on them

[atckowalski]

You probably should change the oil and make sure the air box is cleaned out.After sitting for a long time things tend to change.Also fresh gas and a good carb cleaning inside the carb should help.

[atckowalski]

You probably should change the oil and make sure the air box is cleaned out.After sitting for a long time things tend to change.Also fresh gas and a good carb cleaning inside the carb should help.

[honda110]

clean the carb.

[trikerider2oo7]

look for mouse nests. there was one in the pipe of my friends blaster and it did pretty much the same thing as your bike

[GrizzTorque]

You guys are a big help....now for a stumper.
I opened up the air-box, and it had about 4 inches of oil and gas inside! I dried it out, the foam air-filter was trash, I pealed the peices off and threw it away. I wonder why oil and gas was in the air-box?

[threewheelin-feelin]

well the first thing i i would do is get a new plug ground it to the pipe or something pull it and see if u got fire. next with the plug in pull it like 3 or 4 times pull the plug see if its wet. next check trailprotrailpro compresion. if u have all three next thing is do u have enuff fire do u have enuff gas do u have enuff compression so check it out and let us know.