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So the other day I though my Petcock went bad because the bike acted like it ran out of gas 25 miles into a run with a full tank. Went to drain the tank and barely had 1/4 tank of gas in there, after only riding about 30 miles. Let me give you a recap of my headaches over the past couple of months.
1) Bike was extremely hard to start cold. When I got it to run finally one of my float bowls was leaking like crazy. I pulled the Carbs and cleaned them using Larry's method and a Ultra-Sonic cleaner. I had just done this 8 months ago so they looked pretty good, but last time I hadn't pulled the low jet tube which I did this time. When putting it all together I broke a idle mixture tip off int e carb body. Finally got it removed with only some slight "coning" inside the crab tunnel. Note, before I pulled the crabs the bike ran ok, choke worked etc. On this rebuild I did not split the crab bodies. When I installed the crabs I noticed that the choke was not working at all. Checked that the cables was ok, not binding, all outer mechanisms seemed to be working ok. Pulled the carbs and checked the butterfly's worked. Put the carb back on and same problem, choke does not work. Once the bike is warm I got it to run great but noticed that the idle mixture screws were only 1/2 turn out from bottom to do this. At this point all I thought was I had a choke issue.
2) Went for a ride the other day and apparently my fuel consumption is down to about 10-12 miles per gallon. I checked the Petcock and it is running fine. Cleaned it to make sure.
Here is a list of parts that were replaced on the carb build. 1)replaced both idle mixture screws. 2)replaced both float bowl gaskets. 3)had to replace both rubber plugs as one kept falling out on me. The only other thing I have done different in this rebuild over the one 8 months ago was to pull the low tube using a screw extractor as per Larry's method.
As you can see, I feel like a dog chasing my tail here. I did pull the carbs apart today and rechecked (for the 4th time) that all was installed correctly internally.
ANY IDEAS?????????
1) Bike was extremely hard to start cold. When I got it to run finally one of my float bowls was leaking like crazy. I pulled the Carbs and cleaned them using Larry's method and a Ultra-Sonic cleaner. I had just done this 8 months ago so they looked pretty good, but last time I hadn't pulled the low jet tube which I did this time. When putting it all together I broke a idle mixture tip off int e carb body. Finally got it removed with only some slight "coning" inside the crab tunnel. Note, before I pulled the crabs the bike ran ok, choke worked etc. On this rebuild I did not split the crab bodies. When I installed the crabs I noticed that the choke was not working at all. Checked that the cables was ok, not binding, all outer mechanisms seemed to be working ok. Pulled the carbs and checked the butterfly's worked. Put the carb back on and same problem, choke does not work. Once the bike is warm I got it to run great but noticed that the idle mixture screws were only 1/2 turn out from bottom to do this. At this point all I thought was I had a choke issue.
2) Went for a ride the other day and apparently my fuel consumption is down to about 10-12 miles per gallon. I checked the Petcock and it is running fine. Cleaned it to make sure.
Here is a list of parts that were replaced on the carb build. 1)replaced both idle mixture screws. 2)replaced both float bowl gaskets. 3)had to replace both rubber plugs as one kept falling out on me. The only other thing I have done different in this rebuild over the one 8 months ago was to pull the low tube using a screw extractor as per Larry's method.
As you can see, I feel like a dog chasing my tail here. I did pull the carbs apart today and rechecked (for the 4th time) that all was installed correctly internally.
ANY IDEAS?????????