Light Gray / White Smoke out of Exhaust

[Ginger]

If you're interested in testing the fuel pump, thats a vid of Phil and I doing it on my old VFR ('87 Honda stock). Just hooked the thing up to a 12V car battery, one tube into a half full bottle of beer, the other into another half full bottle of beer. You can hear it pulsing, as carb'd fuel pumps do, and you hear the pulsing speed up as it runs out of fluid to pump.

You likely don't hear the fuel pump on turn key because you've already got sufficient fuel pressure in the lins. They aren't totally dumb, and won't just keep pumping up to infinity. Up to X psi, then they maintain that. If that means that no fluid is actually moving, you won't hear anything.

A better way to test for fuel is to drain the float bowls, close them again, turn the bike on, crank it over. If it starts, you've got a good pump. If it doesn't start, stop, and open the float bowl drain screws again. If fuel comes out, you've got a good fuel pump. If you don't don't jump to the conclusion that the pump is no good. Check for current at it's connector.