carbs

Hey guys, so after getting my bike back from the shop two weeks ago, where it left running, it has decided not to start. When I attempt to start the bike with my electric start, if I have the clutch out or if I give the bike throttle, my electric starter hits a dead spot and sounds like it's...

Need to remove carbs to clean them out, no fuel getting to RH carb. Do I need to remove the air box to get the carbs out. If so how do I get the air box out. Thanks, TonyB

Hi I am going to need to take apart my carbs again and I promised myself that if I did I would replace all the screws (some are stripped) on the body of the carb with stainless steel socket head (Allen) screws does anyone know what sizes and how many of each to redo a set of 1980 xs400g bs34s? I...

I've read lots of posts on this. I have gotten my bike to the point where it is running great but after I ride a couple miles I get gas in the oil. It does not seem to be leaking into air filters and it's not the petcock leaking because I have installed an inline fuel cut off valve. I've read it...

Hey guys, So I've been working on this bike for a few weeks now. Bike works fine and starts up fine. However, when I go to shift to a higher gear, the bike barely picks up any speed. The max the bike goes is to 45 mph and that's at 6 th gear. Really frustrating as I just went ahead cleaned...

My fellow riders, I have gone through everything (carbs cleaned, float level set, valve clearances set, carbs synched, timing and points gap set, mixture screws 3 turns out) and overall my '81 SOHC bike works fine. BUT the left muffler still pops quite substantially. I have found two tiniest...

I little animation on how a CV carb works. May help peeps to understand the workings a bit better. The only difference on our carbs is the pilot is on top and the choke on the side. It may be shown this way in order to see the animation clearer

Hello during the build I have found a problems I suspect it is carburators: The bike only starts with Choke On and runs very unstable, when opening the throttle bike turns Off. what may be a problem ? jets ? (if jets, what are sizes and names for replacement jets) carbs are: Mikuni...

Hey everyone! Soo the bike has been put away for the winter here in sunny sask, so i figured its time to start tearing into it. Over the last couple of days I've been tearing it down, pretty much just seeing what hidden gems I can find that are broken. Found the PO got his sticky fingers into...

anybody know where to get intake boots for the carbs? mine are all dry-rotted:mad: