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So cleaning and rejetting carbs helped make the bike run smoother but the left side seems to be running cooler then the right and when I cover the right carb the bike dies but if I cover the left carb the bike keeps running , could this mean a bad coil ?
having an issue with smoke coming out of my left tail pipe, I'm running pod filters with cut off pipes the pipes do not have baffles
smokes a little at idle and when I give it gas its smokes like it's on fire, could it be that my piston rings are bad?
there is another issue with the RPM's...
Hey about getting the title from Oregon, I bought my bike is San diego with a bill of sale only to find out it was last titled in Oregon,
California DMV told me there was nothing I could do, so I called the Oregon DMV they had me send in paper work with the Vin on it then they sent me the...
Looking to sell my 1980 xs650 bobber
Hard tailed
Pods
Custom seat
One off bars
Old dirt bike tank
Custom one off tail light with with king bee glass hot rod lens
cut down trailer fender
And more
Looking for 4000.00 have a clean Oregon title in my name but the bike is in San Diego county (vista)...
No it doesn't but he said he got it going just after he put the carbs on I rebuilt
the bike is a real rat trap hasn't ran in five years and has had no maintenance in that time
he tried running the gas that had been in the tank since it was stored 5 years ago and he has one stock pipe...
OK he just informed me its done this before I ever touched the carbs after blaming me for messing up his carbs :/ you should have seen the fuel bowls it looked like peanut butter inside:yikes:
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I've rebuilt a set of carbs for my buddy's xs400 but now he says there is gas blowing out of either the pilot or main air jets every time he tries to start it, anyone come across this? I've rebuilt around twenty sets of carbs for both the xs400 and the xs650 and never had this problem before...
I wouldn't say a bill of sale is "worthless" I've bought bill of sale only bikes before but before money is swaped I always check with the police and DMV of the state its from sucks to lose something you worked hard to restore happens in the car world to with vintage cars, its bummer people are...
I would try and run the carbs with the pods first without a jet change see if you have issues then go from there I've had many 650's and 400's run great without a change to the jets for just a pod filter mod including my own 650 but after I chopped the pipes is when I started to have issues (but...
the tank reminds me of the salt flat racer bikes or a drag bike tank likes cool, and nicely put together from the pics, hows it run? the matching horse shoe kicker is a nice touch
moparmatt you mail box is full on here I'm intersted in the carbs also hit me up I'm the one who wanted your front brake setup also, would like to get it all in one shipment might take all the carbs you got lol
shoot me an email at copelandcarburetors@gmail.com