I learn better through experience

[werdna80]

So I learn a valuable lesson today. After I had cleaned the carbs on my 80G it would not go above 5000 rpm. It seemed as if as soon as it hit 4500 lost power. So after much research on this site I was pretty sure I had something wrong with the carbs somewhere.
Pulled the carbs back off and got the coffee can I had just used to hold carb parts ready to go. I then noticed 4 small black rubber plugs in the bottom of said coffee can, they looked just like the pilot jet plugs.... Turns out when you don't put all the parts back in the carb, i.e. pilot jet plugs, it runs really rich has no power, and won't go above 5000 rpm.

Bike works great now!

[motoman]

So I learn a valuable lesson today. After I had cleaned the carbs on my 80G it would not go above 5000 rpm. It seemed as if as soon as it hit 4500 lost power. So after much research on this site I was pretty sure I had something wrong with the carbs somewhere.
Pulled the carbs back off and got the coffee can I had just used to hold carb parts ready to go. I then noticed 4 small black rubber plugs in the bottom of said coffee can, they looked just like the pilot jet plugs.... Turns out when you don't put all the parts back in the carb, i.e. pilot jet plugs, it runs really rich has no power, and won't go above 5000 rpm.

Bike works great now!

Glad to hear you found some missing parts. Another thing to remember when removing internal parts from carbs, keep the float needles/floats separated so they go back in the same carb and seat they were removed from. Reason being, float level setting WILL slightly vary with each float needle and seat if not matched back the same as they were. Just don't toss all parts together in a coffee can.

[TopCatGr58]

Glad to hear you figured it out. Looks like you have some of those bastardized 80 carbs that still have the sharing tunnel, and that's why it uses the pilot jet tower plugs. The later 80 carbs don't have the sharing tunnel and won't use the plugs. Just remember this for your specific carbs for now. Just remember that other's 80 carbs may not need the plugs.

T.C.

[skids]

Glad to hear you figured it out. Looks like you have some of those bastardized 80 carbs that still have the sharing tunnel, and that's why it uses the pilot jet tower plugs. The later 80 carbs don't have the sharing tunnel and won't use the plugs. Just remember this for your specific carbs for now. Just remember that other's 80 carbs may not need the plugs.

T.C.

You never know what mods have been done by the previous owners until you tear into it (if you need to).

[BA80]

You never know what mods have been done by the previous owners until you tear into it (if you need to).

The earlier 80 carbs came that way from the factory skids.

[dbeardslee]

So I learn a valuable lesson today. After I had cleaned the carbs on my 80G it would not go above 5000 rpm. It seemed as if as soon as it hit 4500 lost power. So after much research on this site I was pretty sure I had something wrong with the carbs somewhere.
Pulled the carbs back off and got the coffee can I had just used to hold carb parts ready to go. I then noticed 4 small black rubber plugs in the bottom of said coffee can, they looked just like the pilot jet plugs.... Turns out when you don't put all the parts back in the carb, i.e. pilot jet plugs, it runs really rich has no power, and won't go above 5000 rpm.

Bike works great now!

Good decisions come from good judgement. Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad decisions. Don't feel too bad - you're not the first one to make that mistake. And they really do run like crap without the plugs installed. Glad you got it figured out.