The Story:
I finally got around to rejetting the bike. After alot of trying to figure things out, running back and forth to the computer to consult all the great write ups that are here and on the wiki page, I manage to get the carbs out. Then after reading all the issues with getting the bowl screws out, I proceed to strip the crap out of mine. This is probably when I should've stopped and left it alone for a while, but of course i don't. After visiting 4 different stores (Autozone, Oreily, Sears, and Home Depot) in search of a pozidrive screwdriver, I whip out the drill and try to drill the head off of one of the bowl screws. Of course less than an hour worth of charging wasn't enough for the drill, so I was able to destroy the head, but not get it off.
Next day after work I decide to give lowes a shot at providing either a pozidrive driver or a screw extracter. I find a set of drivers that actually has a pozidrive head in it. At this point I'm feeling great, eager to get working on the carb again. Try using the new driver, still continue to strip the heads (plus I still have the screw that's completely destroyed from drilling). After more reading, I decide to go out and grab an impact driver since some have had sucess with that. Nope, no luck, didn't budge at all. At this point I'm pissed and ready to finish off my assult on the screws with the drill. My dad takes notice and suggest we go see the mechanic that he uses. I wasn't too interested, but I figured it couldn't hurt. Within 15 mins, mechanic has all the screws off including the one that is completely destroyed.
Everything else comes together nicely, replace all the screws with allen heads. Put the carbs back in as the sun goes down. I was able to get the hoses back on from memory pretty easily (maybe too easily). Start her up from the PRI position, and she comes right up to my surprise. Rev it some, everything sounds good. Then I notice the gas leaking from the carbs. At this point its almost completely dark outside, so there's nothing I can do until tomorrow.
The Question:
Provided I don't have much information, does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should check? The plan is to check my hoses to make sure I have them right, then pull the carbs and make sure everything's tight.
All the jousting of the carbs can cause a float to stay open ... Befoe taking it apart again ... wildly shake it from side to side, rap the float bowl with screwdriver handle ... anything to release it. BTW I would use WD 40 generously at the rejet stage so you have some decent slipping possible at dry start up so it rarely sticks open ... of course in my case USPS and UPS help them get stuck a lot when they arrive at the door of who ever sent it to me.
Cool.
Srinath.
I got the leaking to stop, I basically took the bowls apart, made sure the floats were moving freely. Put them back together, this time making sure there the bowls sealed up correctly. Reinstalled, and tapped the bowls to make sure the floats weren't stuck. No more leaking now.
New problem: The bike runs really well initially. Nice power delivery and all, but then once i come to a complete stop and try to go again (intersections and such) the bike dies. Any suggestions on this one?
Is your idle adjusted to approximately 1200 RPM? If not, raise it to there.
yep, it idle's around 1200-1300 when i start it up. I don't have any problems until after I ride it some, then come to a stop
Are you starting it with the choke? Mine idles much faster than that with the choke on.
I set the idle after it is fully warmed up and the choke has been off for several minutes of riding. If you aren't using the choke, it may just be too cold to idle correctly.
the bike is warm and choke is completely off.
I have noticed that the engine will die if I simply jerk the throttle open too fast at low rpms. if i slowly open the throttle until about 7k rpm, then i can chop the throttle with no problems, but if i do the same down low, it dies on me. hopefully this is another symtom of the same problem and not a completely new problem all together. tomorrow i'll try taking the carbs out again and making sure the needles are sitting correctly and spray the bowls with some WD-40.
Thanks for the suggestions so far, I'll continue to take any and all others.
Judging by the fact that my first post was May 26th, It's officially been 2 months, but it seems like an eternity since I've had a bike. Without going into all the painful details this rejet has been one of my most agonizing events I can remember.
But enough whining, does anyone know what could possibly cause gasoline to be coming out of your lunchbox air filter? The bike seems to be running fine for a while, then dies after a couple blocks. At that point i notice there is gasoline dripping from a soaked air filter.
At this point, i'm willing to do whatever it takes to be riding a bike.
Any help will be appreciated before I admit my defeat and hand over a crap load of money to the nearest mechanic (assuming I can get the bike there)
Deff sounds like you are having more trouble w/ your floats :thumb: The gas coming out of the air box is your floats sticking. Are you sure they are set to the correct height? If that is good then you should pull the carbs again and try another cleaning
Float height, float O ring leak, definetly floatal (and yes that will be a word as soon as I write to dubya and ask him to do some floatalling of new troops before surgeing in Iraq)problems ... But ....
Blocked atmospheric equaliser in the carbs can do that too.
Cool.
Srinath.