What a nightmare! *UPDATE*

[rg500gamma]

A longer hose works too.

yes indeed a longer hose ..........  mine came with a very small factory plug & hose clip .   

[rg500gamma]

mine  had a factory Suzuki plug & hose clip  ,  ( very small )   but  yes has  to be  pluged  .   

[rg500gamma]

Suzuki Stevo  showing  a longer hose on port  to make carb syncing  way  easyier  .   

[ragecage23]

Okay, cool. Does anyone know about the middle T connection?

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[rg500gamma]

type  in bike bandit   ,   enter  you bike   2009   gs500f   streetbike     ,  has online parts  view  of carbs

[Big Rich]

That middle T connection : the carb vent hose. GSJack got it earlier. It allows air to go into the carbs as gas is sucked out, so your carbs don't become a sealed vacuum.

[Suzuki Stevo]

Okay, cool. Does anyone know about the middle T connection?

It's a vent hose that goes over the top of the airbox and then vents to the ground IIRC.

It's the hose on the far right of the photo

[ragecage23]

Sorry for the redundancy, but the top two T connections are just open end tubes that don't connect to anything?

[gsJack]

Might help, looks like a "T" party to me. 

http://images.powersportsnetwork.com/fiche/images/SUZUKI/2009/Motorcycles/28479_GS500FHK7P03P28013.gif

[Janx101]

The T bones connected to the brass thing. .. the brass things connected to the something.... the somethings connected to my wristwatch! Uh oh!

[ragecage23]

I must be missing parts then.

[ragecage23]

Just an update. I've bought some of the parts I was missing and made the others. I should be able to fire it up this coming weekend by feeding fuel through the lines. Now I just need to get all the rust out of the tank.

[ragecage23]

So I've got all the hoses hooked up properly, freshly charged battery, turn the bike on and I see lights. Turn signals, headlight, taillight, it all works. I go to start it and nothing. Just sounds like sparks coming from this area.



Any ideas?

[Big Rich]

Just getting the obvious out of the way first: clutch safety switch, kill switch, and side stand switch aren't the problems, correct?

I think that's the starter relay in the pic. Never heard of sparks coming from one, though. Is that fuse good? Check to see if there is any kind of corrosion near the wires on the relay.

[ragecage23]

Turns out the battery was bad. I got a new one and it turns over no problem. Just need to get the rust out of my tank and I'll be back on two wheels.

[ragecage23]

Alright time for an update. Rust is out of the tank and everything is hooked up properly. I noticed when I was draining the tank that there wasn't as free of a flow as there was draining the bad fuel. I didn't think anything of it because this was metal rescue and no fuel. So I tried to start it and it turns over sounds like it wants to start (this is with choke on completely and also note there is still very little metal rescue in the fuel tank.) I turn the idle screw about 10-15 time clockwise and it runs. It's at very high rpms, not sure how much because the Tach wasn't working at the time. So I turn it down a bit and it dies. Turn it back up and it sounds okay for the choke being on. I let it warm up for about a minute and take the choke off and it dies again. I continue to mess with the idle screw and finally get it to about right, it's very rough at idle, but if I turn it up anymore the rpms skyrocket. Now I have a hanging idle as well.

So my question/problem is: should the idle adjustment screw be that sensitive? And how do I fix the hanging idle?

[rg500gamma]

sounds  like carbs are still dirty ,   I  took my carbs off  and got them  ultrasound  cleaned , no more  problems at all ,   problem  when gas sits  in carbs after  only 3 weeks  of non-use  over here in los angeles   ..........     I tried  sea-foam  in gas tank  first ,   did not  work  ,   still had hanging  idle  ,  anyways  ultrasound   cleaning  of carbs  works  great  ...............

[ragecage23]

I've had the carbs rebuilt and this is the first time running gas through them since the rebuild.

[Janx101]

Check the connections, tubes and settings again, make sure it's all correct again...... no matter that you did it before!.. something is setup wrong and you have an issue/s. ..
(No heat in the above!) just if it was all exact/correct you wouldn't be having issues hmm?

Check everything! Again!

Also .. and I think this is correct (maybe Buddha can correct?),  when it all internals confirmed correct. .turn all the screws gently to fully closed... that way you know exactly where you starting from! ... the turn each out the (various) recommended amount of turns to the 'accepted' settings.... again you will know where they are! ... try the start and report. . Then 'we' have a new static baseline to adjust from.

Starting in the middle of somewhere and half a turn left or 9 turns right gives no solid info.

[ragecage23]

I've read somewhere on here about fuel and air mixture screws, should I leave those alone? And alright I'll triple check everything when I get back to my bike.