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Surprising, right? I can ride this bike through a tank plus and still feel great afterwards. I was definitely not expecting that...

Good to know, I'll probably do a full service on the carbs then. Better than having to take them off and apart multiple times.

I think my 78 is in need of swing arm bushings as well. Every now and then I feel a weird movement in the tail, but was never sure if it...

On my third carb cleaning, I finally got the bike running well, but still had the left carb leaking fuel if I left the petcock on and it...

I’d take them apart and clean them, set the float height and mixture screws before you order anything.

I'm probably going to do that this weekend

Sounds like the needle isn’t closing or the float height is too high. Do you have the brass or rubber floats? Have you taken the carbs...

EDIT: I think I found the issue, the new battery I installed is bad. For the life of me I cannot figure this out. Sorry for the long...

Major flooding, so I assumed it was the floats. I recently read some other threads about gunk from original fuel tanks going into the...

At this point I’ve put about 350 miles on my xs400 since getting it back up and running. The original swing arm bushings were so bad I...

Generally speaking the only thing you need during a rebuild is new float bowl gaskets. Unless the floats and jets are that messed up...

I'm also having carb issues, I just posted a thread but reading this one opened my eyes

Having carburator issues, wondering if there are modern carb replacements or if those rebuild kits online do the trick

Limped it into work but didn't have much time to tinker with it. Really is a struggle to get this bike to 35mph lol. Went ahead and...

Yeah you aren't wrong tstidham it is a lost art. I had a similar experience as child rebuilding carbs for my dad on an 80s suburban lol...

Bravo! I guarantee that every attempt after this will be better, but you will never get good unless you start in the first place and a...

If this ^^^^ doesn't help, check the spark timing and advance. Lack of balls across the rev range is also a sign of a retarded spark.

Glad I could help! Carb tuning is a bit of a lost art these days, but my first vehicle was a 70 VW squareback with a 68 dual carb setup...