Both carbs need the rubber caps on the pilot jets.
Sometimes it's stuck in the float bowl.
Thanks. Guy who I was working with dug and found that. Checked everywhere and it was nowhere to be found so ended up fashioning one out of some rubber. Not ideal, but should be fine until I get the proper ones.
Everything else was a bit of a disaster, though. Everything looked pretty good in the carbs. Previous owner said he had done a cleaning but not a rebuild and it looks like he did a pretty good job, everything looked good in there. Diaphragms were good, no tears or anything funky looking. Popped in all the new parts from the rebuild, got the carbs back in and the bike wont idle. Just starts and dies. If you hold the throttle open it idles fine but the idle screw was bottomed out and it wasn't getting enough to keep going. By this time it was 9:30ish and I had to get home, so we rigged the throttle cable up temporarily so I could get home, and tomorrow I was going to get the bike back over to the guy and leave it with him to sort out, as I wouldn't have much time over the next couple days.
Getting the bike home was hell. Just ran awful. Really slow response if I gave it throttle, back firing out the left cylinder, sputtering out if I decelerate, and at stops I'd have to keep the throttle open and around 3k rpm so the bike wouldn't die. Holding the throttle steady the rpm would jump up and down a bit. All around it sounded like a dying animal. Then about half way home at a stop light it died, I tried to kick it over and there was no resistance on the kick lever. Had to stop traffic to push it over to the side of the road and try to get it going which, eventually I did. Then a little up the road it died again - this time at a roundabout so I wasn't even stopped, just slowing down and it died. Pushed it onto the sidewalk and again, just wouldn't kick over. Eventually it did and I blew all stop signs and red lights till I got home and it died pulling into the driveway.
I read that taking the acorn nut off the cam chain adjuster makes taking the carbs out easier, so I did that. As I was loosening it off the other guy noticed that the other nut was coming loose as well. I was going to wait until the carbs were back in to adjust the cam chain tension again, but totally forgot. I thought of this when I was on the sidewalk after the second breakdown, but didn't have any tools on me and it was way too hot to see if I could turn it by hand. So it's very possible that between the initial knocking loose of that nut then trying to get the carbs out of the frame that the cam chain came way loose, but reading symptoms of that it doesn't make sense to me - maybe part of the problem, but not all of it (though I know nothing on the subject and was just doing some searching, so definitely could be wrong). Going to check on that first thing in the morning. When I changed out my handlebars I had the problem of the kick not engaging, due to the clutch cable being all wrong after moving from the rototiller bars to lower ones, but we rerouted the cable, got it all adjusted and it's been good since. We weren't doing anything with the clutch today.
Any other ideas? Not feeling good about riding the bike back to my buddies tomorrow and don't really want to have to get a trailer sorted out, so if anybody can point me in the direction where to look that would be great.
*Edit:* This is the carb kit used, and we replaced the floats as well -
https://www.revshop.eu/en/tourmax-carb-repair-kit-cab-y6.html