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Hey guys, I've been reading for a while and a few months ago I got my very first venox 250.  It was a steal for 450 bucks from a dealer, only problem was, it didn't run.  No problem I thought, I'm a car guy i should have this thing up and running in no time right....wrong.  Let's start from day one, when the bike was finally delivered it was dead, battery was a done deal so I bought a new one and the motor turns over nicely, sprayed some starting fluid in the intake and it started right up and ran for a few seconds.  looking at the vacuum diagram on the rear fender it looks like there were three canisters on this bike and the diagram only showed two, so I thought it was a problem with the vacuum hoses.  I disconnected all the hoses from the canisters and ran them all together to the fuel tank so that there was vacuum to operated the fuel valve.  The valve was bad and had to be replaced so I did that, now with all the vacuums hooked up it still wouldn't start on it's own but when I sprayed starter fluid it started and ran under it's own idle for like 30 minutes so I shut it off thinking I've solved the problem.  The next day I rehooked up the vacuums like the diagram shows and it wouldn't start, disconnected them and rehooked them up like they were before, still wouldn't start, pulled the spark plugs cleaned them with a torch and put them in hot, still wouldn't start, went to pull the tank off with the ignition still on and gas leaked into the plug for the fuel sending unit and kinda burned both sides of the wire up and I think it may have fried more than that because since then the spark to one of the plugs has been extra week and even when I put starter fluid in it still will not run or run really bad for a few seconds and then die and will not restart.  When turning the engine over I don't smell any kind of gas like it's even getting close.  Can anybody help or do I need a new bike.  I already pulled the carbs off and cleaned them up pretty good as well as blew compressed air through all the openings, at this point I'm just lost.  Somebody help please.  Oh and it seems to take up to three weeks to order any new parts either through the dealer or online so that hasn't helped me do this quickly either.