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I'm still dancing on the fence about carb mods and what to do at this point.
My XJ11 came with a rusty MAC 4:1 and terribly malfunctioning carbs. The bike was seemingly running quite lean & was sucking gas like crazy. Because it's no longer stock and there is the 4-1 exhaust already on it and it's running lean, I've bought pods and a Dynojet kit for it which is supposed to work well with the 4-1 & pod configuration and give a fairly balanced non lean burn (at the expense of gas mileage).
I had tried to remove the carbs the same way I do on my XJ650J but the intake boots on the XJ11 go very deeply into the airbox while on the XJ650 they only go 1/3" into the airbox and will pry out fairly easily. Getting the boots off the XJ11 carbs took a whole lot of prying to just get them off the carbs & they were stiff as could be. There was so little room to work with... I eventually was able to pry the boots off & was able to pull them out of the airbox so the carbs could come off the intake manifolds. I decided at that time I would be best go with pods if only to allow me to have access to the carbs when I needed to do so.
I haven't moded the carbs yet and still have the airbox, snorkel & boots (can't undo the already existing 4-1 exhaust) but would be willing to at least see how it works with stock carbs that are rebuilt and properly synced . Problem is I can't see how you are supposed to remove or replace the carbs with the intake boots in place; reinserting those stiff boots into the airbox & then getting them on the carbs would require Houdini.
I considered cutting the airbox in half and taping it together in hopes that might facilitate getting the boots on & off the carbs but decided it probably wouldn't help that much considering how the boots are so deeply sunk in the airbox.
So... while I have time to play around, how do people best get those carbs on & off the stock XJ11 setup?
Thanks
My XJ11 came with a rusty MAC 4:1 and terribly malfunctioning carbs. The bike was seemingly running quite lean & was sucking gas like crazy. Because it's no longer stock and there is the 4-1 exhaust already on it and it's running lean, I've bought pods and a Dynojet kit for it which is supposed to work well with the 4-1 & pod configuration and give a fairly balanced non lean burn (at the expense of gas mileage).
I had tried to remove the carbs the same way I do on my XJ650J but the intake boots on the XJ11 go very deeply into the airbox while on the XJ650 they only go 1/3" into the airbox and will pry out fairly easily. Getting the boots off the XJ11 carbs took a whole lot of prying to just get them off the carbs & they were stiff as could be. There was so little room to work with... I eventually was able to pry the boots off & was able to pull them out of the airbox so the carbs could come off the intake manifolds. I decided at that time I would be best go with pods if only to allow me to have access to the carbs when I needed to do so.
I haven't moded the carbs yet and still have the airbox, snorkel & boots (can't undo the already existing 4-1 exhaust) but would be willing to at least see how it works with stock carbs that are rebuilt and properly synced . Problem is I can't see how you are supposed to remove or replace the carbs with the intake boots in place; reinserting those stiff boots into the airbox & then getting them on the carbs would require Houdini.
I considered cutting the airbox in half and taping it together in hopes that might facilitate getting the boots on & off the carbs but decided it probably wouldn't help that much considering how the boots are so deeply sunk in the airbox.
So... while I have time to play around, how do people best get those carbs on & off the stock XJ11 setup?
Thanks
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