Lived, Died, Ressurect?

[Jonie J]

After an extensive carb clean/rebuild I wheeled my bike out into my driveway to allign the carbs. My GS550L Looked very good, and I got it started first try! I was so happy. I Hooked 4 tubes to my carb vacum lines and turned it back on agian. easy start. I aligned the 4 carbs to eachother, but the idle was strangely running at about 4,000 rpm... I navigated my hand around the carbs to the idle adjustment screw and turned it... and not much happened. I turned it back and forth, and It did change it after a while, but not much. I then wiggled it and the idle speed went way down. It was going to probably die, so I tried giving it gas while turning the idle back up. Well, it did stop running...


ummm... I can't really get it started again. I put the screw back to 1 1/2 turns out from all the way in again, and "mis-aligned" my carbs to see if that was the prob.

The first time I start it after a long time, it gives me a chug or two, then just that dreaded starter noise with nothing going on....


I recharched the battery, but still nuthin.

[mark]

Dumb idea maybe, but did you plug your vacuum line when you did the carb synch? I know from experience that if you don't plug it and synch the carbs you'll be revving through the roof when they all match up......

[Jonie J]

Plug the vacuum line? On the bike, or on the syncronizer?

I hooked all four lines of the sync to the holes that are on all 4 manifold boots.

I have a 4 guages syncronizer that goes from 1 to 30, not a murcury. am I supposed to cover the air lines going into the engine? wont that really kill it?

[mark]

Sounds like your synchronizer is hooked up correctly. But there is a vacuum line that runs from your petcock assembly to the carbs. If your tank is off, and you leave that vacuum line open without a plug, it will mess up your synch. The rest of the lines you can leave alone.