Hey Everyone

[evilimprdr]

Whats up. Finally got my approval. Thought I'd give up on it and then I finally got my email. So here I am. Finally. Basically I just bought a left over 09 3 months ago and been riding the wheels off. In 3 months I've done 2200mi and 2of those weeks it was in the shop for a new petcock under warrenty and my first service. (I'm not afraid to work on my own stuff just wanted that first service to have record of that way if there is a warrenty issue there is proof it was done. 90% of things from here on out will be done by me.) And another about 7-10 days of down time due to CRAZY flooding rains. So I guess we could say so far I'm averaging about 1k a month. With that going up now that the weather gotten warmer and if it does rain oh well ride anyway right?

Plans soon to come are simple, Jardine, air filter and jet kit, sv650 shock, and some misc. body and light mods. This winter will do the rear wheel. Not gonna waste new tires. Gonna use them this season atleast.

My concern is the jetting. I'm not good with carbs or tranny's. Those two things scare me and can keep a bike down over a simple mistake. I have a few friends that are carb wizards, but it's a matter of us finding the time to do it and tune it. So until I can nail down a time looks like I'm stuck with stock.

[ghostrider_23]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

Question, why or what went wrong with your petcock? Was there a recall on it?

The reason I ask is because I too bought a left over 2009 about 3 month ago but only have 900 miles on her.

[Twisted]

Welcome to the forums and good luck with the mods.

[Big Rich]

Tranny's scare me too. So I stay out of that side of town........

But carbs really aren't that bad. Intimidating, yes. Once you open them up you'll see its just rubber,aluminum, and brass with some holes thrown about. Matter of fact, find an old set of carbs and open them up first. Lawnmower, mo-ped, doesn't matter.

[mister]

Welcome and question...

Why do you want to rejet?

If you have a warranty issue and take it in, they will see the mods you've done. You warranty might not be honored as a result.

Michael

[evilimprdr]

The gasket on the petcock was leaking. It was due to where it sat at the dealership. I wouldn't worry much about it. Mine was leaking by the time I got it home.

Why do I want to rejet? That's simple it's lean from the factory. Since I'm going to rejet it I might as well go forth with mods. No point in doing it twice. I mean I can tell on real humid days it will pop on occasion when I left off the throttle. Classic symptom of too much air.

Big rich, I'm a mechanic by trade. Just never felt good about carbs or trannys. I think the big problem is while in school in the late 90's for automotive and by then everything is fuel injected so there was no real need to teach carbs. Then in collage I went for diesel. I'll have watchful eyes of a good friend who is well versed in bike carbs. I'll learn them.

[Big Rich]

Ah, a mechanic. That's good.

Seriously, I try to stay away from transmissions too. Luckily my brother in law was a mechanic in the Marines, so he takes care of the "car stuff" in the family. And my local mechanic is the same way- grew up on fuel injection.

If you have the chance, check out this page on carb tuning: http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=16745.0

[lucifer_mr2]

I know the feeling with carbies and transmissions. I don't touch carbs at work (too old) and the most I'll do with a trans is rip it out, put it on a pallet and send it off to the specialist down the road. Or maybe an oil change (got to love the $1750 oild change).

[crzydood17]

I havent ripped into the tranny yet but I have done the carbs and man they are easy... well the basics at least rejetting and such im still a bit lost on the washer part but i learned on fuel injected stuff, the biggest tip i can give anyone on a first time into something is take pictures EVERY step of the way, the best organization wont help ya if you forget where one little bolt or spring goes. On a list of most basic to hardest it is basically

Adjust Idle
Adjust mix screw (if the PO took out the brass plugs)
Balance carbs
clean float bowls
Rejet
Float hight
Washers
(that covers your basic tuning)
then its total rebuild...

[evilimprdr]

Crzydood I agree with the pics. I do that all the time the first time tearing into something. I started doing it years ago with wiring. Forget where a wire goes a you can be screwed. Especially when someone has been there before and changed the colors of wires.