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[posplayr]

This would have been handy a while back...

I have 10 cases of different beer and 8 bottles of liquor for New Years at Glamis.... erg.

Woulda saved me $350 at the shop.

so do you have it running again?

[Ranger]

so do you have it running again?

I do, still refuses to start without starter fluid with or without the choke on when the engine is cold. The idle is crazy, won't rev up when I engage the choke and when I set the idle speed it is fine til I ride it then its right around 2000rpm at a stop light.

Shop wants another $150 to find the problem and I don't have that to throw at them since they just did all the work so I'm riding it as is which is rough.

[DanTheMan]

You're leaking air in around the intake boots and possibly the air cleaner housing itself and it's boots. Air leaks will cause those problems, fix those and it'll be close to running right again. If you let it keep running like that you'll notice your pipes turning blue and you might end up with the same probs as Shirazdrum (Chris), holey pistons!

[Ranger]

You're leaking air in around the intake boots and possibly the air cleaner housing itself and it's boots. Air leaks will cause those problems, fix those and it'll be close to running right again. If you let it keep running like that you'll notice your pipes turning blue and you might end up with the same probs as Shirazdrum (Chris), holey pistons!

This is what I checked this morning before my ride, I sprayed WD40 around my intake boots which are all new with new rings and have new clips and nothing, I sprayed it into each air intake and the rpms dropped so I know its not too lean. Vacuum hose has no cracks or bends.

I'm losing all patience, none of my neighbors have experience working on street bikes or older bikes at that nor do they have the proper tools. I'm decent working on my own stuff since I've been doing it for years but its easier since most of the stuff I bought was no older than 3 or 4 years old and worked great anyways so finding problems was easy. Even following all the instructions here hasn't got it 100% but then again it takes experience & finesse I suppose.

[Truth]

You paid a shop to fix it and it still doesn't run right? I don't know about bike shops, but at mine I can't give a customer their car back until it's right.

[Ranger]

You paid a shop to fix it and it still doesn't run right? I don't know about bike shops, but at mine I can't give a customer their car back until it's right.

Pretty much.

They did the work to make it run to "the best of their ability given the state of the bike"

I just did the highest rpm method again to the best I could, not much changed except the # 2 carb is much different than the rest but it SEEMS to idle fine. I'll know tomorrow if I try it when its cold...

I need to find someone around here that has the right stuff so I can vacuum synch them, maybe it'll help a bit.

[Ranger]

And someone with a welder so I can repair my cracked header and get rid of the damn ticking noise.

[Truth]

Might want to take up that offer from El Giablo.