• Required reading for all forum users!!!

    Welcome!
    Register to access the full functionality of the GSResources forum. Until you register and activate your account you will not have full forum access, nor will you be able to post or reply to messages.

    A note to new registrants...
    All new forum registrations must be activated via email before you have full access to the forum.

    A Special Note about Email accounts!
    DO NOT SIGN UP USING hotmail, outlook, gmx, sbcglobal, att, bellsouth or email.com. They delete our forum signup emails.

    A note to old forum members...
    I receive numerous requests from people who can no longer log in because their accounts were deleted. As mentioned in the forum FAQ, user accounts are deleted if you haven't logged in for the past 6 months. If you can't log in, then create a new forum account. If you don't get an error message, then check your email account for an activation message. If you get a message stating that the email address is already in use, then your account still exists so follow the instructions in the forum FAQ for resetting your password.

    Have you forgotten your password or have a new email address? Then read the forum FAQ for details on how to reset it.

    Any email requests for "can't log in anymore" problems or "lost my password" problems will be deleted. Read the forum FAQ and follow the instructions there - that's what we have one for...

  • Returning Visitors

    If you are a returning visitor who never received your confirmation email, then odds are your email provider is blockinig emails from our server. The only thing that can be done to get around this is you will have to try creating another forum account using an email address from another domain.

    If you are a returning visitor to the forum and can't log in using your old forum name and password but used to be able to then chances are your account is deleted. Purges of the databases are done regularly. You will have to create a new forum account and you should be all set.

1981 GS850 Choke location.

  • Thread starter Thread starter Gibbelstein
  • Start date Start date
G

Gibbelstein

Guest
I got the carbs assembled and the bike fired up last night, which is a major relief. I am hoping to sync tonight, but I ran into a problem: looking at a fische at partshark this afternoon, it looks like BOTH the throttle and the choke brackets both mount between #2 and #3, and I put the choke between 3 and 4, because the brackets both want to mount to the same place (the top of #2). The slack on the choke cable seems too loose, but the jacket seems stretched as far as it can go. Anyone familiar with an 81 GS850 that can recall, or willing to look at theirs to tell me how it is run?

I'd post a picture, but this is from my phone, so my abilities are limited. If it is necessary to see it, I can post it later tonight.

Thanks for any tips,
Chris
 
tom007.jpg
 
Well, crap.
That I where my throttle cable is currently. In the fiche the throttle bracket is on the inside of #3, but mine is a mirror image of that, putting it on the inside of #2.

Now that I think of it, I don't know if the choke cable ever retracted back all the way down... maybe this was a problem I didn't know I had, since it always started fine. I'll have to see about leaving it, and taking up some of the choke cable slack.

Thanks for the pic!
 
Carb rebuild tutorial linked in my signature. Lots of photos.
 
Great point. Now that I think of it, your write up is what I referenced when I was re-assembling the whole thing. Thanks, that makes me feel better to know that arrangement is on at least some setups. Perhaps it is just a matter of adjustment.
 
Hi,

You'll find more pictures in the Air Intake Repair guide too, like this one...

intake_repair26-1.jpg



Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
 
Gracias

Gracias

Thanks for the help, guys.

Cliff, that carb arrangement looks somewhat familiar. :) My issue is that I seem to have the same choke bracket that in your pic, but my throttle cable bracket wants to be in the same spot. I wondered for a while if I were putting the bracket on incorrectly, but it is pretty straightforward. I even thought of flipping it over so that it would be attached on the other side of the "gap" between #2 and #3, but then it would be upside down. Maybe the PO replaced it with a throttle bracket from a different mode? Perhaps this will help:


2011-08-18-17.21.23.jpg


I sync'd it tonight, and it seems to run just fine, but I'll have to wait for some chilly morning to see if the choke works at least as well as it did before (it's my first bike, so I have no other frame of reference). Maybe I just need a new cable as well. This one could be 30 years old.
 
That choke linkage looks wrong. It should be between 2-3 carbs, not 3-4.
 
No, I still think the trouble is the throttle bracket.

Originally I had the choke between 2-3 (mounted to #2). However, when I went to attach the throttle cable bracket it needed to go on #2, when everyone else's seems to go on #3. And because the throttle bracket HAS to go between 2-3 (That's where the connection is to the butterflies), and the choke bracket COULD physically go elsewhere (because it could mate to the choke shaft at any of the available spots), that is what I had to do. If I had a throttle cable bracket that attached to #3 like in all of the pics above, I could run both cables between 2-3.

I guess it looks like this out of necessity, if not correctness.
 
Last edited:
Looking at your picture, the tall bracket between 3 and 4 is your choke bracket. It must move to between 2 and 3 being attached to number 2. The throttle bracket must move over to #3 sitting so that the open end of the bracket allows the throttle cable to stretch down to the throttle between 2 and 3. The will sit next to each other (one on 2 and the other on 3). Turn the throttle bracket so it fits on the two front screws of number 3 not the side ones.

Just because the picture shows it going sideways doesn't mean it will fit that way. Mine had the same issue (fiche picture shows it sitting sideways on the carb while it can only fit on the front screws).
 
Last edited:
That must be it.

That must be it.

Ahhhhh! There it is. I had considered flipping the bracket, but rotating it hadn't even occurred to me. Now I just have to work on swapping the choke bracket without removing the carbs again now that they are running.

This concludes this weeks bike hardware puzzle. Thanks everyone for playing along at home.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top