Hey all, I have a 1978 XS750SE that I have owned for a long time, and neglected for a long time. In an attempt to get things back to normal, I recently threw away the pod filters that were on it when I bought it, and got a replacement airbox to put things back to stock. It never ran super well with the pods, and it became a bit of a project that I put on hold for too long.
It's been sitting for a couple years at this point. I changed the gas, Tightened the deadbolts to spec, check the valve clearance's and replaced two shims to bring everything back in line. That's about where my engine knowledge ends, as everything else I've worked on is fuel injected.
I replaced the boots for intake and airbox, I opened the carbs up and soaked them in B-12 dip and also made it a point to clean out the pilot circuit in the float bowl. I checked the jets and seems everything was left stock even though it had pods.
I bench synced the carbs, and am planning on timing and carb sync once I can get the thing to a nice warm idle. Which is where I'm stuck. The bike actually fired up real nice on full choke, and ran forever at half choke, around 950 RPM. Even after letting the bike warm up for 20 minutes or so, if I tried to kill the choke, it just sputtered and died right away. I restarted it and tried to kill the choke while giving gas, and I could keep it alive as long as I stayed on the gas, but if I let off for a second, it would die right away.
Reading here, it sounds like I failed to get the entire Pilot circuit clean? So my question is, is there a solid clean/rebuild protocol for these carbs? My understanding is they only really used these for two years? All of the picture/videos/write-ups I am seeing are for the earlier 1977 carb, and I'm admittedly a little lost. I have the clymer but it doesn't go into enough detail either.
Any help at all getting this bike back to normal is sure appreciated.
It's been sitting for a couple years at this point. I changed the gas, Tightened the deadbolts to spec, check the valve clearance's and replaced two shims to bring everything back in line. That's about where my engine knowledge ends, as everything else I've worked on is fuel injected.
I replaced the boots for intake and airbox, I opened the carbs up and soaked them in B-12 dip and also made it a point to clean out the pilot circuit in the float bowl. I checked the jets and seems everything was left stock even though it had pods.
I bench synced the carbs, and am planning on timing and carb sync once I can get the thing to a nice warm idle. Which is where I'm stuck. The bike actually fired up real nice on full choke, and ran forever at half choke, around 950 RPM. Even after letting the bike warm up for 20 minutes or so, if I tried to kill the choke, it just sputtered and died right away. I restarted it and tried to kill the choke while giving gas, and I could keep it alive as long as I stayed on the gas, but if I let off for a second, it would die right away.
Reading here, it sounds like I failed to get the entire Pilot circuit clean? So my question is, is there a solid clean/rebuild protocol for these carbs? My understanding is they only really used these for two years? All of the picture/videos/write-ups I am seeing are for the earlier 1977 carb, and I'm admittedly a little lost. I have the clymer but it doesn't go into enough detail either.
Any help at all getting this bike back to normal is sure appreciated.
