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I put Oil through the air box back in 2008
Now I put Gas though it in 2017
My bike sat for a couple years and I recently brought it back to life.
1. Rebuilt the carbs - Float seats and float needles, mixture screws. Idle jets.
Was having a few problems.
2. Put some new coils in it which definitely helped.
Still couldn't get the mixture screws set right. So I ordered a colortune. Yesterday warmed her up and brought back to garage. Starting setting up and noticed the smell of gasoline. That gasoline was coming out of the airbox. Removed air filter and determined it was coming from carb #4. Immediately removed carburetors and looked into carb body #4. The float seat looked funny to me. The original didn't look like that. Then took apart #3 it looked just fine. THEN IT DAWNED ON ME.
When I was rebuilding the carbs a month ago I noticed I didn't have a o-ring for my last mixture screw on carb #4 so I used an old O-ring. That missing O-ring was stuck in the bottom of Carb #4 float seat DOHHHHHH. Anyway, unscrewed mixture screw #4 and replaced the old O-ring ( i think it was leaking air). Now everything is working fine. I always seem to do something really stupid when working on this motorcycle. Amazes me that it even works at all.
Another thing I noticed is that the mixture screws I bought back in 2008 were the wrong ones. I think I had them set to a 1/4 turn out they are very very skinny points compared to these new ones that are about 2.25 - 2.75 turns out.
So here is my question..... I have not used the colortune yet and think I want to send it back since it is un used.
From what I understand to set the mixture screw. Start with #3 and unscrew to Highest revs. Start turning in slowly slowly until you hear the revs drop then back out 1/8-1/4 turn. Then do #4 ,#2 and #1. Sync and ride. Is that procedure correct?
Now I put Gas though it in 2017
My bike sat for a couple years and I recently brought it back to life.
1. Rebuilt the carbs - Float seats and float needles, mixture screws. Idle jets.
Was having a few problems.
2. Put some new coils in it which definitely helped.
Still couldn't get the mixture screws set right. So I ordered a colortune. Yesterday warmed her up and brought back to garage. Starting setting up and noticed the smell of gasoline. That gasoline was coming out of the airbox. Removed air filter and determined it was coming from carb #4. Immediately removed carburetors and looked into carb body #4. The float seat looked funny to me. The original didn't look like that. Then took apart #3 it looked just fine. THEN IT DAWNED ON ME.
When I was rebuilding the carbs a month ago I noticed I didn't have a o-ring for my last mixture screw on carb #4 so I used an old O-ring. That missing O-ring was stuck in the bottom of Carb #4 float seat DOHHHHHH. Anyway, unscrewed mixture screw #4 and replaced the old O-ring ( i think it was leaking air). Now everything is working fine. I always seem to do something really stupid when working on this motorcycle. Amazes me that it even works at all.
Another thing I noticed is that the mixture screws I bought back in 2008 were the wrong ones. I think I had them set to a 1/4 turn out they are very very skinny points compared to these new ones that are about 2.25 - 2.75 turns out.
So here is my question..... I have not used the colortune yet and think I want to send it back since it is un used.
From what I understand to set the mixture screw. Start with #3 and unscrew to Highest revs. Start turning in slowly slowly until you hear the revs drop then back out 1/8-1/4 turn. Then do #4 ,#2 and #1. Sync and ride. Is that procedure correct?
I use a long skinny screwdriver to adjust that thumb screw but that's just to set all the carbs to the correct idle speed once you have done the sync.
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