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[Worth1]

Sounds good right now.
I got up this morning with full intentions of cleaning house and cooking something good.
Instead I got involved in getting my sick motorcycle running and lost all track of time.
Where did the day go?
Worth
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[Hellmanns]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Sounds good right now.
I got up this morning with full intentions of cleaning house and cooking something good.
Instead I got involved in getting my sick motorcycle running and lost all track of time.
Where did the day go?
Worth
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Did you figure out what was wrong?

[Dinahsb]

This is a lovely tribute to your late wife. I'm so sorry for your loss.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Hellmanns

Did you figure out what was wrong?

Messed up carbs and it looks like I am going to have to take the darn thing almost apart just to get them out.
Carburetors are no big deal to me I just wish they were sitting on my table.
When I get that stinking air box off off it will never go back on.

Originally Posted by Dinahsb

This is a lovely tribute to your late wife. I'm so sorry for your loss.

Thanks.

Worth

[Hellmanns]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Messed up carbs and it looks like I am going to have to take the darn thing almost apart just to get them out.
Carburetors are no big deal to me I just wish they were sitting on my table.
When I get that stinking air box off off it will never go back on.






Thanks.

Worth

I love and hate mechanical diagnosis. Mostly love! But, you're right, I don't mind going through a carburetor just hate to take it off.. Every spring it seems I have to work on every small engine carburetor on the farm. Darn gas we have these days!

[Worth1]

First square meal I have had in days..
I didn't have any rice so I had homemade canned gumbo in spaghetti.
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[Worth1]

Here is the nightmare unfolding.
I will post some pictures on my phone and come back and explain a few things.
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The forst pictuer is after much work taking the bike alomos apart just to get the carurators off.
The black box on the ground it the air box that wont be going back on it jold the air filter.
I also wont be paying the alomst $300 they want for a so called kit to go to external filters.
I can buy the filters and jet my own carburetors.
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Here they are off finally.

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On the table so I can work on them.
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Okay this is the part that had me going for a while and I knew it was coming.
The jerks made air mixture adjustment screws with a darn D shape on them so you would have to buy a little D socket to fit that they want like $28.00 for.
I took some pliers and modified the tips with a file so I could get them out.
Once I got them out I took my Dremel tool and cut slots in them so I can use a screwdriver.
What I did on one bike is I took a dime and filed it so ut had a little screwdriver in the end and epoxied it into the slot.
It never can out.
I will more than likely do something similar to this one instead of buying the $25.00 thumb screw set they sell.

What mad man thinks these things up they should be shot.
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[Cole_Robbie]

fwiw, I don't know about other makes, but on Suzuki carbs, they do things like make the screws on one side not match up to the screws on the other side, even though they look identical. Every screw has to be put back into the specific hole it was taken out of.

[Worth1]

Back together again and runs.
Every part back where it came from on the carbs.
At least now it only takes a bit to get to the carburetors and work on them.
I still need to get some breathers and jet it for it to run right but even now it runs like a scalded ape.
Yesterday it wouldn't start then I got it to run on one cylinder and go pop pop pop.
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[Cole_Robbie]

Holy cow that was fast. I need to ship my bike to you.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

Holy cow that was fast. I need to ship my bike to you.

Thanks.
Nothing I hate worse than stuff torn apart, the longer it sits the more likely it doesn't get put back together and parts are lost.
I have seen so many motorcycles look just like mine did with the carbs off and then never run again.
Even now there is a gas tank bolt I put some place yesterday so I wouldn't lose it and forgot where I put it.
I really wanted to see that left cylinder fire off and it did.

Worth

[Worth1]

Here is the carburetor torn down in the house.
Some of you guys might attempt this and I have some very important information that many people mess up on.
Worth

Here is the whole mess torn down.
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This is what will fall out if you are not careful when you pull the main jet assembly out.
The long needle in the diaphragm assembly fit is in.
It goes in with the dished out side up outward cone side down.
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This is one that gets everybody and you are juiced it it happens.
When you pull the idle mixture screw out there will be a little washer and a tiny O ring that will stay in the carburetor.
Then you start cleaning and they get lost or you mess up the O ring when you put the idle mixture screw back in.
These are on the engine side so they mix adjust fuel.
If they are found on the intake or filter side they will adjust air if I am not mistaking.
The pictuer shows how they go together.
I dropped one of the little washers on the floor I didn't think I was ever going to find it.
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[Cole_Robbie]

You're making the hundred bucks I paid the bike shop to clean my carbs look like a bargain.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

You're making the hundred bucks I paid the bike shop to clean my carbs look like a bargain.

It wasn't running right so I pulled everything and really went to them with a fine toothed comb.
Yesterday was a trial run to just get the poor thing to fire again.
Today after I got everything right and the screws turned out 2 1/2 turns and fired it up it runs like the devil better than it ever has.
Now I need to order two filters and some new jets and it will be even better.
As it is now at a slow lope to cracking the throttle wide open is has zero hesitation.
Last winter I put a programmable spark box in it and the rev limit is now 8,000 rpm.

Yes you are right $100 is a good price to have someone else do this and not mess up your carburetors it can be easily done.

Worth

[jpop]

It's alive, it's alive. Love this addition to the thread, bikes get the blood pumping especially when you get to grab the throttle and let them rip. Craving that adrenaline rush again but w/ young kids its hard to justify. Had cars which I raced on closed tracks that I sold about 8 years ago and sulk when I see threads w/ bikes and fast cars. Great to see this thing healthy, enjoy and safe travels.