Bit new to this, so bear with me!
A few months ago I bought an 06 Kat, 10k miles, put a few thousand miles on it already, have changed the oil, toyed around with it a bit, but it's always bogged past 75mph or so, bogs faster when opening the throttle up more. If you baby the throttle to not make it bog, it'll bog less.
I recently took the airbox off to check the air filter(now knowing that removing the air box isn't necessary. It seems that it bogs quite a bit more now even at lower speeds. When just accelerating to reach 70mph or so. There's a small hole in the bottom left of the airbox, but I don't think that'd affect it? The filter didn't seem great, and I didn't have any way to get another filter at the time so I just vacuumed it out and called it a day. The airbox did have some wet spots from what I'd only imagine to be gas, and the filter did smell of gas, if it's of any revelation to the carbs.
Either way, the previous owner bought rebuild kits for the carbs and I've done a bit of reading and watching videos on it and haven't quite decided if I'm going to tackle that with a more knowledgeable buddy or if I'm gonna wait and take it to a shop. I have 4 rebuild kits already, and am looking into where it'd be best to buy jets from(advice appreciated).
Just wondering if you guys have some advice on this apart from the carbs and how it'd be best to tackle this as a semi-beginner.
Thanks.
A few months ago I bought an 06 Kat, 10k miles, put a few thousand miles on it already, have changed the oil, toyed around with it a bit, but it's always bogged past 75mph or so, bogs faster when opening the throttle up more. If you baby the throttle to not make it bog, it'll bog less.
I recently took the airbox off to check the air filter(now knowing that removing the air box isn't necessary. It seems that it bogs quite a bit more now even at lower speeds. When just accelerating to reach 70mph or so. There's a small hole in the bottom left of the airbox, but I don't think that'd affect it? The filter didn't seem great, and I didn't have any way to get another filter at the time so I just vacuumed it out and called it a day. The airbox did have some wet spots from what I'd only imagine to be gas, and the filter did smell of gas, if it's of any revelation to the carbs.
Either way, the previous owner bought rebuild kits for the carbs and I've done a bit of reading and watching videos on it and haven't quite decided if I'm going to tackle that with a more knowledgeable buddy or if I'm gonna wait and take it to a shop. I have 4 rebuild kits already, and am looking into where it'd be best to buy jets from(advice appreciated).
Just wondering if you guys have some advice on this apart from the carbs and how it'd be best to tackle this as a semi-beginner.
Thanks.
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