DAMN i got my first service for 150

Buy a repair manual, it will pay for itself many times over.
$400 is way to friggin much.   
I think $150 is way to friggin much.   
Shoot, you could probably but a whole bunch of valve shims and keep them at home + a repair manual (even Haynes manual) + oil filter  + oil for that much.  You can make a carb balancer too for a few bucks.

I owned a Rabbit years ago, I will never forget a quote in "Poor RIchard's Rabbit book for the compleat idiot", "Sixty bucks an hour?!?!? I don't make that much, you probably don't either, why would you pay that to someone else?"

Don't be afraid to try it youself.  My first valve adjust for Concours took almost all day (it was winter anyway) but now I can do it in a few hours.  AND I don't have to wait around at the dealer all day.  I do it at MY convenience.  That is priceless. 

Good luck

Quote from: MikeNW on July 28, 2007, 07:16:17 AM
You can make a carb balancer too for a few bucks.

Yep -- get about 20 feet of plastic tubing that fits the carb nipples (3/8"?).  Use a turkey baster to fill about a 5 foot length of the tubing with Auto Trans Fluid (ATF).  Tape the tubing to a 5 foot stick in a U-shape so the tubing ends are pointing up.  The ATF should be inside the U portion.  Cut ends down as needed, connect to carb nipples.  Remember that ATF is much lighter than mercury, so a small vacuum difference may show up as a few INCHES of difference here.

-b.

Quote from: bosozoku on July 28, 2007, 07:20:50 AM

Quote from: MikeNW on July 28, 2007, 07:16:17 AM
You can make a carb balancer too for a few bucks.

Yep -- get about 20 feet of plastic tubing that fits the carb nipples (3/8"?).  Use a turkey baster to fill about a 5 foot length of the tubing with Auto Trans Fluid (ATF).  Tape the tubing to a 5 foot stick in a U-shape so the tubing ends are pointing up.  The ATF should be inside the U portion.  Cut ends down as needed, connect to carb nipples.  Remember that ATF is much lighter than mercury, so a small vacuum difference may show up as a few INCHES of difference here.

-b.

ok that didn't confuse me at all, lol.

@groff22: yes I did. I took my dremel and was bored and I did the same thing to my hoody. well I took those ones and put it on my bike. they kinda rattle a bit but other than that it doesnt go anywhere. What rattles is the headlight where I forgot to screw back in the two side screws, so it sounds like a rice burner with really bad speakers really loud from the outside and all it does it vivbrate the f%$k when you slow down with engine breaking or rev up. I need to fix that lol 

"Tape the tubing to a 5 foot stick in a U-shape so the tubing ends are pointing up.  The ATF should be inside the U portion.  Cut ends down as needed, connect to carb nipples.  Remember that ATF is much lighter than mercury, so a small vacuum difference may show up as a few INCHES of difference here."

Better yet, DON'T cut the tubes, Make a long "U" and run from the end of each leg of the U to the carb nipple.  This measures the difference between the 2 carbs.  Excellent for the GS.  A sort of pain for a 4-carb bike, but still useful.  You don't need to know how many MM of mercury, you just need to know the DIFFERENCE between carbs to balance them.

Get it?  Each carb is "sucking"    ATF against the other, you can adjust to really small vacuum difference. 

Quote from: MikeNW on July 30, 2007, 09:43:20 PM
"Tape the tubing to a 5 foot stick in a U-shape so the tubing ends are pointing up.  The ATF should be inside the U portion.  Cut ends down as needed, connect to carb nipples.  Remember that ATF is much lighter than mercury, so a small vacuum difference may show up as a few INCHES of difference here."

Better yet, DON'T cut the tubes, Make a long "U" and run from the end of each leg of the U to the carb nipple.  This measures the difference between the 2 carbs.  Excellent for the GS.  A sort of pain for a 4-carb bike, but still useful.  You don't need to know how many MM of mercury, you just need to know the DIFFERENCE between carbs to balance them.

Get it?  Each carb is "sucking"    ATF against the other, you can adjust to really small vacuum difference. 

I think I get it but that's something somebody would have to either show me or draw. I have bad luck reading something and messing up. im a visual learner.

Dang, I don't know how to post photos, I have the balancer set-up in my garage.  I will keep trying.

Hey MikeNW,

U can host iimages somewhere like imageshack.us for free ... it's all here in How to post pics

Wouldn't mind seeing your setup as wouldn't others!

Cheers,
J

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