Wow what a day of discovery, so I spent the day getting ready to rejet. The jets wont be here untill Tuesday so I spent the day pulling the carbs and cleaning them so all I have to do is throw in the jets and put the carbs back on.
The things I discovered are insanly stupid.
I found that the previous owner had shimmed the needle by putting the #4 washer on top of the circlip so all it would do is preload the giant spring by an extra 1mm(stupid) so I fixed that and saved myslef a trip to the hardware store since it already had them in there.
Another weird thing is that the needle has various positions that the circlip can be placed on, I only noticed this after I looked up the proper order for all the stuff that goes on the needle and noticed none in the FAQ mention this. Don't bikes made out side the US have this, and by moving the circlip isn't that the same as adding a washer?
So I also solved a mystery that has plagued my bike for the last 2 years. Even though the fuel hose were routed correctly. I checked like a million times, when the petcock was on and I would ride it would go untill I completly emptied the tank and acted just like it was on RES. But when I put it on RES it would act like it was on the ON postition. So I was baffeled by this.
Today since I had the Petcock off the bike I tried blowing on the various hoses with the petcock on various postions and got the following results without any vaccum applied to the vaccum hose(weird ehh)
Position Result
ON Flow through what should be the RES connnection
RES Flow through wha should be the ON posistion
Prime No flow(even when vaccum was applied)
So this really got me intrested since it was odd that PRI would not work.
Guess what the previous owner had done?
He friggin had removed the metal clip that has the words stamped into it(PRI ON RES FUEL)
and had maneged to put 180 off, and I also discovered that the petcock handle aligins only one way with the internal valve within, so basically he had bypassed the vaccuum portion of the petcock but still had ON and RES but backwards.
So maybe he isn't so stupid because that is kinda of a neat way to by pass the vaccuum portion and still have ON and RES since you could just reoute the fuel lines to make it act normal less the PRI position.
Anyways I fixed that and all is well now, so just waiting on the Jets to arrive on Tuesday
Quote from: coll0412 on May 28, 2006, 04:52:09 PM
by moving the circlip isn't that the same as adding a washer?
I was under the impression that adding a washer adds some weight as well as height to the needle, but I may be wrong
Otherwise just think how much better she'll run not only after you fix that nonsense but after a rejet :thumb:
Either you have a bike that started life in Europe, or you don't have stock needles.
When I got my bike, I opened my carbs to find a float valve just sitting in the bottom of one of the bowls. Neither float valve was in need of replacement. It was a ready reserve I guess....
Quote from: coll0412 on May 28, 2006, 04:52:09 PM
Another weird thing is that the needle has various positions that the circlip can be placed on, I only noticed this after I looked up the proper order for all the stuff that goes on the needle and noticed none in the FAQ mention this. Don't bikes made out side the US have this, and by moving the circlip isn't that the same as adding a washer?
I understand some (or all) non-US bikes have clip needles. Also DynoJet kits come with clip needles and have a different taper than stock. There was a pic of a stock & DJ needle comparison posted at one time. If you have DJ needles, good luck getting to run right.
AGGGGGG....its been tainted with DJ
Yeah so I looked up how to do the dinojet install and sure friggin enough it is has been done.
So basically it must run lean an part throttle and rich at WOT
Should I still swap the pilots?
Should I buy a new slide and needle, or does some one here have 2 extra hanging around
What do you guys think
Can I plug the drilled holes or what do I have to do with slides, I cant find any pictures of what the stock look like
Thanks,
Aaron