Hi all,
I just put the bike back together after doing some work, part of which involved taking off the exhaust. The bike ran pretty well before, but now it has a lot of problems. So, first off, when I first reattached the exhaust and started it back up, I noticed I had a lot of leaking smoke out of the headers. I took it back off and reattached it tighter and added some JBWeld gasketmaker, and now there is no visible leak, but I'm assuming it's still not a perfect seal, but should be good enough. Now with the bike, I can not make any sense of how it currently runs. Depending on how I have the idle and choke set, it will either idle way too high, which makes sense for the idle being high, idle perfectly but will die if I give it gas, or idle around 1500 and run great for about 10 minutes, until it ultimately dies, and I have to mess with everything again. (which is extra frustrating because I thought I had it all fixed and took it on the road, and it died in the middle of the road and I had to sit in a parking lot for 20 minutes trying to find a good mix). My guess is that the fuel/air mix is off because of the header leak, but I can't find any resources that show where the screw actually is! Everything I see says it's on the side, but there is no screw visible on the side of these carbs. There's a screw on the top, on the engine side that I thought could be it, but messing with those screws has no affect. I don't think it's a dirty carb problem, because once again, it was running pretty decently before I had to take stuff apart. Any help / resources would be appreciated. Thanks
I just put the bike back together after doing some work, part of which involved taking off the exhaust. The bike ran pretty well before, but now it has a lot of problems. So, first off, when I first reattached the exhaust and started it back up, I noticed I had a lot of leaking smoke out of the headers. I took it back off and reattached it tighter and added some JBWeld gasketmaker, and now there is no visible leak, but I'm assuming it's still not a perfect seal, but should be good enough. Now with the bike, I can not make any sense of how it currently runs. Depending on how I have the idle and choke set, it will either idle way too high, which makes sense for the idle being high, idle perfectly but will die if I give it gas, or idle around 1500 and run great for about 10 minutes, until it ultimately dies, and I have to mess with everything again. (which is extra frustrating because I thought I had it all fixed and took it on the road, and it died in the middle of the road and I had to sit in a parking lot for 20 minutes trying to find a good mix). My guess is that the fuel/air mix is off because of the header leak, but I can't find any resources that show where the screw actually is! Everything I see says it's on the side, but there is no screw visible on the side of these carbs. There's a screw on the top, on the engine side that I thought could be it, but messing with those screws has no affect. I don't think it's a dirty carb problem, because once again, it was running pretty decently before I had to take stuff apart. Any help / resources would be appreciated. Thanks
