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After surmounting a few years of neglected maintenance, lack of tools, and just being scared of opening up some of the deeper recesses of carburetors, valves, and cylinders, I've gotten my GS 550 running close to well.
One key development in my quest was realizing that some PO had never jetted the carbs for the cool-looking (cheap) pods he'd put on instead of the airbox.
The bog(s) in the throttle was a mystery to my novice mind, but after opening a lot more of the bike up and looking at the internet, I had an incite. I wrapped the pods in duct tape, so that only about 20% of their intake was exposed, and when I took the bike out it was like a whole new machine, peppy, faster, fuel-efficienter, funner.
I just bought some stock air box parts from eBay to see if it gets better than this.
I still need an actual air filter, and I was thinking of getting this filter from K & N rather than the cage and the filter from somewhere like Boulevard, but I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about this. Is this K & N going to be worse for performance than the stock stuff from Boulevard? Will I continue to get bogging? The online chat rep told me this replaces "all OEM something" when I asked.
Search "air filter" on the forums and you get 500 threads. I looked at all of them and read a lot of the interesting ones. One thread I saw, for a bigger GS, maybe BikeCliff's Air Intake System Repair, says you still need the cage, but that's contrary to what the K & N rep told me.
I think the Boulevard Stock stuff is the cheaper route, but I'm open to suggestions.
I also wanted to try to encourage the more timid novice reading this to perform the recommended maintenance that may seem beyond his or her grasp.
One key development in my quest was realizing that some PO had never jetted the carbs for the cool-looking (cheap) pods he'd put on instead of the airbox.
The bog(s) in the throttle was a mystery to my novice mind, but after opening a lot more of the bike up and looking at the internet, I had an incite. I wrapped the pods in duct tape, so that only about 20% of their intake was exposed, and when I took the bike out it was like a whole new machine, peppy, faster, fuel-efficienter, funner.
I just bought some stock air box parts from eBay to see if it gets better than this.
I still need an actual air filter, and I was thinking of getting this filter from K & N rather than the cage and the filter from somewhere like Boulevard, but I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about this. Is this K & N going to be worse for performance than the stock stuff from Boulevard? Will I continue to get bogging? The online chat rep told me this replaces "all OEM something" when I asked.
Search "air filter" on the forums and you get 500 threads. I looked at all of them and read a lot of the interesting ones. One thread I saw, for a bigger GS, maybe BikeCliff's Air Intake System Repair, says you still need the cage, but that's contrary to what the K & N rep told me.
I think the Boulevard Stock stuff is the cheaper route, but I'm open to suggestions.
I also wanted to try to encourage the more timid novice reading this to perform the recommended maintenance that may seem beyond his or her grasp.
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