Hi folks,
So in this ongoing saga to get my bike working, I made the bottle sync tool, as prescribed, and finally, just focusing on two at a time, got carbs 1 and 2 to sync the best I could. First, I idled her with the idle screw to about 2000 rpm. Then I did 1 and 2, facing the same direction of the bike, starting from my left. Then I went to do 3 and 4. However, as I did this, in order to sync 3 and 4, that screw apparently made the idle go up to 4000 rpm! I thought, OK, maybe that's what it's supposed to do. So I go to do 1 and 3, with the throttle screw in the middle. However, that one is screwed ALL the way in, and the more I loosened it, the higher up the idle went. So I tried to lower it with the idle screw, and no dice. It didn't go.
And this is something I've noticed earlier when I was trying to control the idle. Between 3 and 4, the moment I started turning that screw in, the idle started to drop. So initially, besides trying the idle screw, which didn't do anything to drop the idle, I used the 3 and 4 to drop the idle down to 1500 rpm. However, after doing 1 and 2 (which were in balance after some work), when I checked 3 and 4, they were completely off balance, so as I balanced it, the bike went up to 4000 rpm, but carbs 3 and 4 were much more in balance (fluid wasn't shifting to one bottle as fast, and actually seemed to level out).
I then tried 1 and 3, and like I said, that screw (throttle screw) was turned all the way in tight. I had no choice but to loosen it, which only seemed to increase the rpm. I'm beginning to wonder if this might have something to do with my pilot screw? I double checked the screws during a reclean, and they were all set at 2.5 turns out (screwing them all the way in, and then loosening them 2.5 out)
Help?
So in this ongoing saga to get my bike working, I made the bottle sync tool, as prescribed, and finally, just focusing on two at a time, got carbs 1 and 2 to sync the best I could. First, I idled her with the idle screw to about 2000 rpm. Then I did 1 and 2, facing the same direction of the bike, starting from my left. Then I went to do 3 and 4. However, as I did this, in order to sync 3 and 4, that screw apparently made the idle go up to 4000 rpm! I thought, OK, maybe that's what it's supposed to do. So I go to do 1 and 3, with the throttle screw in the middle. However, that one is screwed ALL the way in, and the more I loosened it, the higher up the idle went. So I tried to lower it with the idle screw, and no dice. It didn't go.
And this is something I've noticed earlier when I was trying to control the idle. Between 3 and 4, the moment I started turning that screw in, the idle started to drop. So initially, besides trying the idle screw, which didn't do anything to drop the idle, I used the 3 and 4 to drop the idle down to 1500 rpm. However, after doing 1 and 2 (which were in balance after some work), when I checked 3 and 4, they were completely off balance, so as I balanced it, the bike went up to 4000 rpm, but carbs 3 and 4 were much more in balance (fluid wasn't shifting to one bottle as fast, and actually seemed to level out).
I then tried 1 and 3, and like I said, that screw (throttle screw) was turned all the way in tight. I had no choice but to loosen it, which only seemed to increase the rpm. I'm beginning to wonder if this might have something to do with my pilot screw? I double checked the screws during a reclean, and they were all set at 2.5 turns out (screwing them all the way in, and then loosening them 2.5 out)
Help?
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