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Author Topic: issues with starting the bike  (Read 2151 times)

GrimReaper

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Re: issues with starting the bike
« Reply #15 on: April 04, 2010, 08:37:59 PM »
Thank you guys.I spoke with a local felow airhead today(respectful wrench-German guy) about this and he suggested since i took out only the idle jet,just to put the cables back and set the throttle ones with 2mm free play.He said no need of synchronization.
  I did it and the bike ran like never before.Nice smooth ride which was disturbed by a stuck needle,which i noticed very quick and fix it on the road.
 Anyway this homemade manometer is very cheap to made so i am going to make one tomorrow and see what is going to show

Offline montmil

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Re: issues with starting the bike
« Reply #16 on: April 05, 2010, 05:50:15 AM »
With all respect to your German mechanic friend, by using the manometer, the best performance improvement will be adjusting the throttle cables to balance the carbs at 2500-3000 rpm. This will have both butterflys open equally at cruise speeds thereby smoothing engine ops, less vibration.

Engine must be fully warmed up prior to tuning/adjusting. Big fan to keep engine from overheating. Run no more than 5-6 minutes before allowing a short cool down, then restart and continue, if necessary.

Monte
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