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High Idle 1982 GS 650 Pods

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Hey Guys,

New member here, but long-time lurker.

Regarding my situation, I know that people will suggest that I should go back to the stock airbox, but I know there are people who are running pods successfully...

The story: My bike is running at 3400 RPM at idle. It starts at around 1000, but then increases until it sits at around 3400. I recently took off the carbs, cleaned em, set float height etc, and added pods. It starts up on a dime with no hesitation at all. I only jetted the mains from 110 (factory) to 120's so that wouldn't affect the idle. I did not re-jet the pilot jet. The bike ran perfectly before I did any of this (except the float bowl overflowed once in winter before I took off the carbs). This is my first bike and i'm pretty much learning as I go...

There are a few things that I checked:

1. choke cable is not engaged (if I engage it, it increases the RPM a bit)
2. throttle cable has enough slack that it is not holding open the throttle
3. I played with the idle speed adjustment screw and it didn't change anything
4. I checked for a vacume leake by starting it and spraying WD40 around where the carb and engine connect and the RPM does not dip at all.

From what i've read, I assume that there could be a few things: 1) the pods are crap (EMGO) and i'm sure some people will tell me to go back to stock airbox. 2) I am not adjusting the idle correctly. 3) not jetted correctly.

Any thoughts? Would changing to K&N pod's make any difference? I'm eager to get my bike on the road and now that i've sorted out my electrical issues I can focus on the carbs. Any success stories with jetting the same bike would be awesome too.

I appreciate the insight guys. Thanks!
 
Pods (cheap ones no less) on a 650, you should be ashamed! When you took off carbs ( remember the bike ran perfect before!), just how did you clean them? and did you install new o-rings at carb boot/cylinder head interface ? climbing idle usually means air leak as bike warms up.
 
Is one (or more) choke plunger jammed open? Or you have a bad synch. You should be able to get the idle down on the adjuster screw.
 
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