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    #16
    Hi,

    Exhausts leaks can affect the flow but you should be able to get it close enough. Where is your exhaust leaking? Exhaust gaskets are pretty cheap. I've even seen people make their own connector gaskets from sheets of exhaust gasket material.



    Thank you for your indulgence,

    BassCliff

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      #17
      they might be leaking at the head. i was saving my new gaskets for when i get a new exhaust but i know its leaking at slip joints further back somebody butchered the exhaust at some point but it works for now

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        #18
        ok so my fuel starving problem is still there after crusing for a while between 55-60 bike starts to die. so i tried pulling the choke and it stays running. dirty carbs again?

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          #19
          I know you said you tuned the carbs using the highest RPM method, but where are your mixtures screws set now?

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            #20
            just recently set them all to 2.5 i have bigger mains 122.5 and pilots can t remember and VH 4-1

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              #21
              help please bump....

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                #22
                Is there rust in the tank?
                Is your petcock operating properly?
                1983 GS 1100E w/ 1230 kit, .340 lift Web Cams, Ape heavy duty valve springs, 83 1100 head with 1.5mm oversized SS intake valves, 1150 crank, Vance and Hines 1150 SuperHub, Star Racing high volume oil pump gears, 36mm carebs Dynojet stage 3 jet kit, Posplayr's SSPB, Progressive rear shocks and fork springs, Dyna 2000, Dynatek green coils and Vance & Hines 4-1 exhaust.
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                  #23
                  I had rebuilt my carbs and it would not run right , there was a small piece of rubber floating around, when I would take off the carbs it would move from carb to carb. finally found it after i removed the needle valve seats and blew it out. Then it ran good but later i had a inline fuel filter and too much fuel line and it was kinking the fuel line and starving the the motor for gas. I fixed that and it ran great after that.
                  Last edited by Guest; 09-16-2011, 08:51 PM.

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                    #24
                    Originally posted by chef1366 View Post
                    Is there rust in the tank?
                    Is your petcock operating properly?
                    no and yes

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                      #25
                      Sorry to hear you are still battling with a sick bike
                      Firstly you need to clarify, is it running out of grunt over a certain time or a certain power requirment?
                      In other words, can you ride it all day long at 40mph with no problems, or does it die after, for argumets sake, after fifteen minutes of riding, regardless?
                      If it is flaking out after a certain time, no matter what your speed, then it is something getting hot and breaking down, look at your ignition system.
                      If, however you can ride at 40mph all day long, no problems, and when you increase to, say, 60mph, she flakes out, then it is a power delivery problem, look at your fuel system, (read, fuel starvation)

                      With that out of the way, the devil is in the details

                      when i got the bike i rode a 900 mile round trip with no problems at all

                      just had the tank painted

                      Herein lies the clue, all was good, something was done, then all was not so good, so something changed inbetween, your job is to find out what?


                      I would back up Cliff's theory of a blocked breather, you never did say if you checked the little hole in the filler neck, and remember the cap itself needs to vent as well, through the key hole, as I remember there are two little holes in the side of the cap as well.
                      A good test to eliminate that is to fill the tank, no more than half full, so you don't spill, and take it for a test run without the cap on, see what happens, if she performs as advertised, you have venting problems, if she still dies, well.....back to the drawing board.
                      Don't worry about the filter, it won't cause grief, no matter what they say to you, my bike has run with a filter most of its life with no ill effects.
                      But what the guys tell you is true, you don't need it, the fuel tap has a screen, as do the carbs, at each needle and seat, so you have double protection, so if it is off, leave it off, just saying, it won't cause your problems.


                      Try those little tests and report back, we will get you up and mobile yet, just stick with it, you have all the help you need right here.

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                        #26
                        i did check the filler cap a while back i took it apart and cleaned it out. it seemed to be working properly. as for when she dies i rode about 15 miles the other day at about 50-60 mph just crusin easy on the throttle i sped up to 70 and within about 1 mile she started cuttin out. also i can take off in first and run through the gears at WOT and it cuts out at maybe half to three quarters of a mile. i installed new dyna coils and plug wires a while back

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