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Well I know I just saved myself in excess of $300..how do I know well let me just say I called awhile back to see how much a Jet kit install would be at my local stealership and they told me $200 for the labor, so I can only imagine what the cost would of been for the advancer and then a carb synch.
As some of you might have read in another post my g/f actually got me what I wanted for my b-day which was an ignition advancer and ivan Jet kit. While I was on the phone with Ivan he suggested the carb synch tool and said it was only $70 which is alot cheaper than other tools and definately cheaper than what my local shop would charge to do it. So I said go ahead throw that in there too.
So I right away came to the Katboards and searched around, oddly enough Cyberpoet has 2 great write-ups on his Motorcycle Anchor webpage. In conjuction with that I also used the Kat service manual that I was able to download from here.
I was worried about the difficulty of the process but I took my time and just read over the directions and before I knew it I actually had my carbs off and threw on the Jet's and needles. Man I am glad Ivan threw those Allen bolts cuz man I stripped 2 of those phillips ones, what piece of crap those were. The advancer was easy, except initially breaking that death grip that the advancer had on that 6mm allen bolt, but after that it was cake. And as for the carb synch well the box/service manual pretty much sum up how to do the synch, but man that is a pain in the ass where the vac lines hook up especially to get those little clips off.
But anyways I just wanted to say thanx for all the helpful infor that is contributed by everyone, everyday. I know that I am not the first or last person who finds this stuff extremely useful especially to keep the cash in my pocket rather than spent for labor hours.
As some of you might have read in another post my g/f actually got me what I wanted for my b-day which was an ignition advancer and ivan Jet kit. While I was on the phone with Ivan he suggested the carb synch tool and said it was only $70 which is alot cheaper than other tools and definately cheaper than what my local shop would charge to do it. So I said go ahead throw that in there too.
So I right away came to the Katboards and searched around, oddly enough Cyberpoet has 2 great write-ups on his Motorcycle Anchor webpage. In conjuction with that I also used the Kat service manual that I was able to download from here.
I was worried about the difficulty of the process but I took my time and just read over the directions and before I knew it I actually had my carbs off and threw on the Jet's and needles. Man I am glad Ivan threw those Allen bolts cuz man I stripped 2 of those phillips ones, what piece of crap those were. The advancer was easy, except initially breaking that death grip that the advancer had on that 6mm allen bolt, but after that it was cake. And as for the carb synch well the box/service manual pretty much sum up how to do the synch, but man that is a pain in the ass where the vac lines hook up especially to get those little clips off.
But anyways I just wanted to say thanx for all the helpful infor that is contributed by everyone, everyday. I know that I am not the first or last person who finds this stuff extremely useful especially to keep the cash in my pocket rather than spent for labor hours.
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