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Ive been gone lately from the forum, mostly bc the bike is running great and I have been enjoying riding before Its too cold. Got it running great and have put 600 miles on her since sept/oct... But now I have an issue. Its my 1990 GSXF 600 with 28,000 miles
600 miles ago the carbs were completely rebuilt, new needles, gaskets, cleaned completely. I put new a new stock type air filter, NGK plugs and new plug wires, I also did a full coil relay mod. I have advanced the bikes timing roughly 3-4* and has fresh honda 10w40 oil in it (600 miles ago). Bike already had a full V&H supersport exhaust and I sync'd the carbs after all these mods.
About a week ago I shut the bike off and left it outside with a cover and a tarp on it. Mainly bc we were going to get a little random snow storm in NJ. After a week the snow melted and I unwrapped the bike and went to start it today and it was running very differently. I was getting a good bit of smoke out the exhaust (whitish color but may have had a little blue tinge to it) which I would have assumed was oil being burned or condensation. but the Bike was running differently, exhaust seemed empty or off tone than normal. After a min or so I took the choke off and it wouldn't idle higher than 1000-1100rpms like it wanted to die (bringing back memories of before $HIT!) I then smelled gas and looked around while running I saw a drip of gas coming from the bottom of carbs 1 + 2 and going onto the starter and alt. So i shut it down and began to pull the carbs. I couldn't find the leak but it might have been leaking from the plastic T that the fuel line connects to at the carbs to feed 1+2 gas from the petcock.
While I had the carbs off and apart now is a good time to do the FP stage 1 jet kit that i was going to wait till the spring to do... hell why not! So i put the stage 1 kit, 115 jets, Needle has the Cclip at the 3rd position from top, stock pilot jet and all that jaz. I put it all back together and Started it up... ran alittle better but still seems off in the exhaust tone/throttle response. Good news is that it seems like the leak is gone. After a min I took the choke off and the bike still doesn't want to idle higher than 1000-1100 even if I mess with the idle adjuster. I haven't synced the carbs after the jet kit.
What the CR@P could have done wrong in a week of just sitting outside?!
600 miles ago the carbs were completely rebuilt, new needles, gaskets, cleaned completely. I put new a new stock type air filter, NGK plugs and new plug wires, I also did a full coil relay mod. I have advanced the bikes timing roughly 3-4* and has fresh honda 10w40 oil in it (600 miles ago). Bike already had a full V&H supersport exhaust and I sync'd the carbs after all these mods.
About a week ago I shut the bike off and left it outside with a cover and a tarp on it. Mainly bc we were going to get a little random snow storm in NJ. After a week the snow melted and I unwrapped the bike and went to start it today and it was running very differently. I was getting a good bit of smoke out the exhaust (whitish color but may have had a little blue tinge to it) which I would have assumed was oil being burned or condensation. but the Bike was running differently, exhaust seemed empty or off tone than normal. After a min or so I took the choke off and it wouldn't idle higher than 1000-1100rpms like it wanted to die (bringing back memories of before $HIT!) I then smelled gas and looked around while running I saw a drip of gas coming from the bottom of carbs 1 + 2 and going onto the starter and alt. So i shut it down and began to pull the carbs. I couldn't find the leak but it might have been leaking from the plastic T that the fuel line connects to at the carbs to feed 1+2 gas from the petcock.
While I had the carbs off and apart now is a good time to do the FP stage 1 jet kit that i was going to wait till the spring to do... hell why not! So i put the stage 1 kit, 115 jets, Needle has the Cclip at the 3rd position from top, stock pilot jet and all that jaz. I put it all back together and Started it up... ran alittle better but still seems off in the exhaust tone/throttle response. Good news is that it seems like the leak is gone. After a min I took the choke off and the bike still doesn't want to idle higher than 1000-1100 even if I mess with the idle adjuster. I haven't synced the carbs after the jet kit.
What the CR@P could have done wrong in a week of just sitting outside?!
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