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The bike had been sitting in the last feller's garage for several years. He said he got the carbs worked on by someone but it hadn't been running right after that.
The tank was full of questionable gas. I popped the battery in, checked spark, thumb-over-the-hole tested compression, put plugs back in, turned it over. nothing happened whatsoever, not even a sputter. I just wanted to hear some sign of life, but no such luck.
I pulled the fuel line out of the tank and turned it over to check the petcock, sure enough gas spurted out of the tank. So the vacuum stuff works.
I drained the tank, intending to put in some sea foam and run it thru, say what you will about that. But, when I pulled the bowl drain plugs, it was bone dry in there. I squirted carb cleaner down the fuel intake line, and it just stayed in the fuel line and didn't drip into the bowls So, I pulled the carbs out and started disassembling them. I found this, what appears to be definitely the wrong needle:
the tip is rubber on there. It was definitely getting stuck in the seat. plus it appears to be too long. Now my first problem is I'm having a little trouble finding the right needle.
So I found this part, it looks right, I guess I'll find out next week. It looks like someone in taiwan is making these.
Apart from that, and I've only pulled open one of the carbs, but the inside looks quite clean. The pilot jet is even clear. I'll save the second carb disassembly until my parts come in. Or I guess I could dip them in the meanwhile, i just really don't want to mess with the adjuster screw which apparently has an o ring on it. They look clean enough that I'm hoping I can go with my original plan of seafoaming it through the gas tank.
Fingers crossed, it'll run once it actually gets gas into the carb bowls ...
the boots look half decent too as far as I can tell, still soft and not cracked or anything.
I also found out that the tank and plastics used to be blue and have been repainted red. So I feel less bad about the little scratch i put in the tank paint... lol
the inside of the tank is very clean, though it does have some ever so slight rust beginning to form. it's really minimal, i'm not sure that it's even worth worrying about, it's basically surface rust. maybe i'll look into evaporusting it.
Anyhow. that's my progress as of today. comments or suggestions welcome, thanks for reading.
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