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Its out of adjustment enough that its a bit difficult to downshift. I wonder if I just need a custom cable, Im running flanders flat track bars and bought the longest cable I could find, its barely long enough
Sure didn't line that up, thanks!
Only reason I replaced it was the clutch seems to go out of adjustment every 200 miles or so and was hoping it was just a worn push rod. Guess we'll see
I installed the mikes xs single piece push rod but now the bike is difficult to get into gear and seems to creep forward while stopped in gear with the clutch pulled in.
When I installed, I reassembled the clutch and am thinking maybe I overtightened or under-tightened the clutch springs/bolts...
Interesting. for me I've never needed the choke on the previous bs34s or the mikes pwk carbs unless its <50 degrees. We'll see how the cold start is on these tomorrow, today I used it but it also fired right up at 3-4k.
Today I tried
1. replacing the gas (it was about a month old)
2. replacing the float bowl bolts with longer bolts
3. double checked the float height
4. replaced one of the intake manifold gaskets
The bike starts and is running about 90% still a little bit of a hanging idle but Im able to...
I should also mention I was able to ride it up and down the street and it seemed almost normal last weekend but I was tuning and test riding in the rain. Maybe the rain was blocking a vacuum leak elsewhere? The day before I put these carbs on my neighbor backed into my bike and knocked it into...
Got back out there today now that the rain has stopped. I replaced the choke dust seals and all 4 throttle butterfly seals and ran the carbs through my ultrasonic cleaner. The bike still only starts with the choke on even with #45 pilots and the mixture screw 3 turns out. It was 20 degrees...
Interesting so looks like these '80 carbs are '81+ since the drain plug is off the side, explains why they also had the plastic floats.
I ordered some new intake manifold gaskets, choke seal and throttle seals hopefully that does the trick.
Interesting, so these carbs I believe are off a 1980 special but they had plastic floats. The only reason I changed them was bc they were a bit corroded and the pins were sticking.
Here's one of the new carbs: