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so when cleaning my carbs the post that holds the float that the pin gos through broke. I ordered a set of carbs for an 82 (thats what they had though mines an 81) from a junkyard. I cleaned em up put em on and have had major problems dialing them in. (erratic idle, rpms hanging up, etc.) I...

so i finally got a chance to get back at this thing, rpm kept hanging at idle at 4-5 grand adjust the idle screw it would slowly drop back down then stall. I pulled the tank and hooked up an iv to watch the cable action to see if it was hanging up somewhere. after a couple minutes of it running...

I bought a non running 81 xs400 off of craigslist and have been trying to get it going again. New battery, clean carbs, fresh plugs. When I fire it up it fires up right away and runs strong (no dogging, good throttle response) but it only runs for about a minute or two then dies. If I try to...