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Background Me: I'm new to carbs. I'm new to motorcycles. I'm not afraid to fix it. The bike: 81 xs 400 barn find. 6600 miles on the odometer. Completely stock. Did nothing to the engine except a couple of oil changes and fresh gas. (side note: I ditched the vacuum petcock in favor of a...

I brought home my xs400 in April, put fresh gas with stabilizer in it and started her up for the first time in 30ish years. Bike seemed to run great but I didn't have much time to mess with it. Since then I've started the bike 1 or 2 times a week and let it run for 10 minutes or so. I...

My experience includes machining, welding, fabricating, farm wrenching and other relevant man skills. I'm pretty mechanically inclined but I have no experience with motorcycles. While most motorcycle nuts seem to have been infected from early on in life I'm coming into this a bit late at 46...