Really Long Warm Up After Rejetting

[chimivee]

Ok to bring up an older post:

I'm having trouble going up long steep hills with my 91 GS.  I'm thinking that the floats are set incorrectly since the bike will stumble and die on sharp inclines.  I haven't yet done the U-tube test.  To get more fuel into the bowls, I should raise the floats, right?  Which is to actually "lower" them in the float bowl, since the carbs are upside down when you're working on them.  


Adam

To raise the fuel level, you lower the float height (carbs upside-down).  When right-side-up, the floats will be higher, raising the fuel level.  Did that make sense???

[Kerry]

To get more fuel into the bowls, I should raise the floats, right? Which is to actually "lower" them in the float bowl, since the carbs are upside down when you're working on them.

To get more fuel into the bowls, you really do want to raise the floats when the bike is in operation, which means lowering them while the carbs are upside down.  (That's what you just said, right?)

Page 3-11 in the Haynes manual shows the procedure.  The float height mentioned in Figure 9.7 is listed as 14.6mm +/- 1mm.  Whatever your current measurement is, to increase the operating level of the floats the measurement needs to go down.

EDIT: Changed link from sisna.com to bbburma.net.

[scratch]

Since this topic came up again, I re-read it and noticed that nowhere is the idle screw mentioned.

[Adam R]

Alright, tomorrow I'll tackle that problem, although I'm supposedly also going to be looking for a ultility trailer.