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has anyone ever had the engine dies on you while riding along and realising its not responding to the throttle..only to find the carb booth is leaking? if so, how do u fix it?:confused:

i have taken the advice of drewpy and a few others about bridging out the sidestand switch by twining the wires together etc so that the motor will not shut down upon engaging a gear. well it didnt work. but upon inspecting the opperation of the switch i realised that when the actuater is...

hello again from jamaica,my extended family. well you all would be proud as a chimpanzee getting a blowjob from a zebra of me lol. yes yes..i have sourced the igniter box for the maxim 400 xs,boiled my carbs with lemon juice and brake fluid,put everything back on the bike,turn on the petcock...

i finally got the bike to run after repeated boiling of the carbs in brake fluid and lemon juice for a few hours then blowing out the jets with compressed air. she fired up at one..lol all i had to do was point my finger at it and away she purrs. so that settled..i changed the old fusebox to...

hey fellas..a big hi five from jamaica..and a bit of sunshine for those of you in colder climes. ok my xs400 83maxim is driving me off the wall....the original tci box was shot (tid12-07) so i got a tid29-14 from a guy who says it would work. i plugged it on got a new battery with some brute...

well fellas i am in a dill of a pickle here. i just bought this 1983 maxim 400 from a guy. he said it would run and as soon as it got a little way it would die..he would park it for a while then presto it runs again. he said he was told that the igniter box was the problem. so he took it out...