Hello All,
I recently ordered a Vanes and Hines exhaust and a Factory Pro stage 1 jet kit, Last week I installed the complete exhaust system, it was pretty easy, I installed it in like an hour or so. I felt pretty good after that.
Now I had not anticipated on installing the jet kit myself, I got a quote from the cycle shop in my area (Free-State Cycle) and they quoted me $550.00 USD and another shop quoted me like $650.00.
Now this is like my first bike, (The bike I had before was a Yamaha FZR 600) which I never put on the road so I sold it.
In the past, I was an auto mechanic for a dealership and worked on cars and trucks, rebuilding engines and transmissions but got tired and switched careers to Network Engineering (Way more money and less knuckle breaking ) that was over 12 years ago, showing my age now .. LOL
I have been debating for the past couple of days, Install the jet kit or pay a cycle shop to do the work. even though I have worked on cars I have never had to overhaul a carb. From the looks of it, it does not seem to be hard, but if I pay to have the job done, I know it will be right and have a warranty as well.
If I get up the guts, I may spend this Sunday breaking it down and installing the jet kit saving me some money.
Oh, I forgot to mention, its a GSX600F, the pilot jets are dirty because the bike will not idol without the choke being on so
I know I will have to remove the pilots and clean them as well.
Thoughts Anyone ?
I recently ordered a Vanes and Hines exhaust and a Factory Pro stage 1 jet kit, Last week I installed the complete exhaust system, it was pretty easy, I installed it in like an hour or so. I felt pretty good after that.
Now I had not anticipated on installing the jet kit myself, I got a quote from the cycle shop in my area (Free-State Cycle) and they quoted me $550.00 USD and another shop quoted me like $650.00.
Now this is like my first bike, (The bike I had before was a Yamaha FZR 600) which I never put on the road so I sold it.
In the past, I was an auto mechanic for a dealership and worked on cars and trucks, rebuilding engines and transmissions but got tired and switched careers to Network Engineering (Way more money and less knuckle breaking ) that was over 12 years ago, showing my age now .. LOL
I have been debating for the past couple of days, Install the jet kit or pay a cycle shop to do the work. even though I have worked on cars I have never had to overhaul a carb. From the looks of it, it does not seem to be hard, but if I pay to have the job done, I know it will be right and have a warranty as well.
If I get up the guts, I may spend this Sunday breaking it down and installing the jet kit saving me some money.
Oh, I forgot to mention, its a GSX600F, the pilot jets are dirty because the bike will not idol without the choke being on so
I know I will have to remove the pilots and clean them as well.
Thoughts Anyone ?
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