Is There An Easy Way To Re Insatall 1983 gs450 carburetors ?

[BUSARIDER]

I just recently aquired a 1983 Suzuki GS450L . I bought it from the original owner. It has 5,000 miles on it. He parked it in 1989 and it has sat under his carport since then. I bought it for $50.00 seemed like a good deal !!! I have worked on atv's and motorcycles since I was 3, so I tackled this bike head-on ! I got it to run and run very well on carburetor cleaner but it would never run on gasoline from the IV I had hooked up. I knew it was the carburetors. I decided to take them off. I like to have never got them out even after slipping the air box back (I must have not done it right because it only slipped back very little ) I did eventually get them out and eventually get the choke cable un-hooked. The slides were frozen up with varnish and the inside of the carburetors were varnished up as well. I took them apart and soaked everything in fuel injector cleaner and blew the jets out with compressed air and have them clean now. I took the rest of the carburetors apart and have them soaking in a mixture of ( 1 gallon of gasoline, 1 gallon diesel and 2 quarts of Marvel Mystery Oil ) they have soaked for 24 hours now and they look great ! They are clean and it looks like all the other crud inside the carburetors has came loose and is settled in the bottom of the container. I am planning on blowing out the carburetors today and freshening up the diaphrams with marvel mystery oil and then re-assembling them. The part i am dreading is sliding them back into their spots to be re-attached to the bike !!

Is there an easy way to reconnect the carburetors to the bike and gently get them back into their spaces ? I got them out , it took 30 minutes to do that ... I know it will be a helluva time getting them back in.

Any help will be greatly appreciated ... Thanks ... Stephen

[GateKeeper]

Welcome to the site, seems your on the right track, here is some reading for you, and grab the tutorial on how to rebuild your carbs.

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