Totally! ha ha.Thanks, I as looking through my bookmarks the other day looking for this info.......thought i had bookmarked it...........you know what thought, thought
Totally! ha ha.Thanks, I as looking through my bookmarks the other day looking for this info.......thought i had bookmarked it...........you know what thought, thought
Seriously your cylinders are getting washed down with gas. Odds are pretty good your crankcase oil is very diluted. This all adds up to metal on metal friction and the bad things that brings in short order.
Pictures? show us LOTS of pics, carbs fuel lines intakes etc. with the float bowls off would be good too.
Literally just off idle and it’s a continuous flame. (With 32.5 pilot)
Yikes! Wow, ok...something is definitely NOT right. I'm sorry to have lead you down this path...but at least it's clear that there's something funky happening, and not standard to the general thoughts on tuning for this carb on our bikes.
As Gary suggested, pics. Can you take pics of the serial # on the carbs too? Just want to rule out that their not clones but legit Mikuni carbs that came with your bike.
There are a few things that can impact your ignition. The first is to test your battery... I think initially you said you're running without a battery, is that still the case or have you bypassed that with a battery? You could trace the power to the coil and see if you're losing power along the path, and you can test your coil (There's a ton of threads on testing coils--you need to test the primary resistance and then the secondary resistance)....it's pretty straight forward. If that tests good, you could go on to try new plugs, etc. ....BUT first, have you done the basics to set the bike up: set cam chain tension/checked valves, checked timing, etc? If your timing is off, you could have similar outcomes that you're having now...and may not be completely carb related.
Um, sounds like the VM34's ARE the issue to me.Yanked the stock carbs off of my buddies 75 xs650 and put it on mine.
Bike fired up and ran fine.I’m ruling out the carbs being the issue.
Yup. It’s killing me. These carbs are so simple, and it’s beating me lol.Um, sounds like the VM34's ARE the issue to me.