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    A very specific choke problem

    I cant seem to find this problem elsewhere or in the tech section, I have a pair of BS38 carbs that I was able to track a vacuum leak down to the choke on, I tried cleaning the plunger, then replacing it which slowed the leak slightly, then messed with the gasket all to no avail. Finally I cut a...
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    First Bike - No Idea What's Going on

    Alright one more update for today. Did a lot of little tinkering with these things and dont know what is actually relevant or not so i'm just going to vomit out a bunch of things I saw. Removed choke plunger. It was very black so I cleaned it up real good, no change in how fast the slide falls...
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    First Bike - No Idea What's Going on

    I genuinely couldnt find anything as specific as this so thank you. Maybe my googling skills are just getting bad. Any suggestions for how to proceed fixing the vaccum problem? I've taken it apart and blasted it out with carb cleaner in case there was a bit of dirt hiding somewhere, all the...
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    First Bike - No Idea What's Going on

    So could I just leave them as is? That shouldn't be affecting my vaccum issue correct?
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    First Bike - No Idea What's Going on

    Heres a few pics of both ends, if you need better ones just let me know. Also i'm not sure what the deal with those red caps are. PO put them there. They're on a nipple and when I looked through my manual I couldnt seem to find any hoses or tubes that ran to them, however it didnt show them as...
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    First Bike - No Idea What's Going on

    I just know theyre BS38's, I dont know if it goes any deeper than that. These are very clean though the PO fixed them up right. I've got a Clymer manual but for someone like me that isnt very familiar with a lot of this is only helps so much. Fork seals will get replaced once the bike can...
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    First Bike - No Idea What's Going on

    Alright I tooled around with this bike a lot and now it's timed and will hold the timing. So thats great. My main issue now is the carburetors, which is where im going to struggle the most. The left one has a vaccum leak pretty obviously, when I plug the top hole and push the slide up it takes...
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    First Bike - No Idea What's Going on

    Alright I've been putting a lot of time into this thing recently, I think many of my issues come from the previous owners not wanting to spend the money to or were just to lazy to fix things properly. I took out the advance rod and greased it BUT now I have the opposite problem, my timing is so...
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    First Bike - No Idea What's Going on

    Cleaned the contacts and re-gapped the points. I was actually able to time it correctly this time and got the bike running for a minute. When it wouldn't start again I re-checked the timing and had the same issue, test light goes on way out past the TDC mark on the stator and I couldn't adjust...
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    First Bike - No Idea What's Going on

    Okay, so I made the mistake of putting this bike away for the winter and taking it out just a week or so ago. When it was put away it ran just not very well, my plan was to get the idle set properly when I took it back out and to my dismay the bike doesn't start now. The only glaring issue I...
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    First Bike - No Idea What's Going on

    Stevens Point! Didnt realize you were in Baraboo I end up down there quite a lot for work actually
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    Man Vs. Bike

    So I've got this project bike that I bought off my brother a while back, this thing has been passed around to quite a few different guys that did all kinds of different things and made varying levels of progress on it and now it's in my care. This summer I would like to really dig into it and...
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    First Bike - No Idea What's Going on

    Alright dropping in to give an update, been very busy between work and other things. I put in a new ignition coil on the side that wouldnt spark and no more misfiring! So i'm making progress. Now it seems the one side is running very poorly, theres smoke coming from the exhaust, and the other...
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    First Bike - No Idea What's Going on

    Okay I found it and swapped the leads, still no spark on that left side
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    First Bike - No Idea What's Going on

    Awesome that's really helpful! I dont know how long that would take me to figure out with just google. Do you have any specific recommendations for new manual petcocks?
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    First Bike - No Idea What's Going on

    Forgive my ignorance but I cant seem to find anything that looks like an ignition condenser? We already swapped the leads and plugs to the working side to make sure they worked and they do.
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    First Bike - No Idea What's Going on

    Yes, I was told that there was some issue with the fuel tank and its vaccum so im sure this is the issue since the petcocks do have another smaller nipple on the back of them but I don't see any place for them to go on the intake manifold
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    First Bike - No Idea What's Going on

    The right side fires just fine. But the left side gets no spark,I swapped the plug, boot, and cable to the right side and then it sparked just fine. I live with two mechanics and they both just told me to replace the ignition coil. I know the wiring is probably a mess on this thing though...
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