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- Windsor
Before you say "tear it apart and clean jets and needles", I need to point out that the carbs were freshly rebuilt by "WiredGeorge" down by San Antonio.
Hello, I'm an old member, coming back into the fold, "last visited 3 May 2011" up in the corner right now. Been ... *ahem* "busy" the past seven years.
Anyway, believe it or not, this is my (new-ish) wife's bike. I unloaded wife 1.0 in 2008, married wife 2.0 in 2012.
1995 Yamaha Virago 535, V-twin, pair of Mikuni carbs in downdraft configuration.
As I mentioned above, the carbs were pulled and sent off to SoTX for a rebuild. About a month ago I got them installed, got the system primed up and actually had a running motorcycle. It was a nice rumbly purr you'd expect from a V-Twin. Seemed to me that the bench-tuning was rather nice.
Noticed a leak in the fuel pump, coming out the body.
Sourced a replacement, took a couple of weeks to get it in and installed. Went to fire it up and the front carb started venting all sorts of fuel. Coming out the intake horn (yeah, clamp not tight enough) and out of the emissions control goodies that are connected to the float bowl vent nipple.
Pulled the float bowl cover off and tickled the float and needle while running the fuel pump (small bursts) to flush out any gunk that was in there, all good.
Pulled spark plug and turned it over a few times to chug out any fuel that may have pooled in the cylinder.
Re-assembled necessary components and fired it up.
Horrible throttle response. Seems to me that one of the sliders is sticking and we'll go ahead and blame the front one since this seems to be the problematic carb.
What are the odds I got fuel on the dry (wrong) side of the carb, where the diaphram resides?
Any tips or should I just fire it up and try to "blow out the cobwebs"?
Hello, I'm an old member, coming back into the fold, "last visited 3 May 2011" up in the corner right now. Been ... *ahem* "busy" the past seven years.
Anyway, believe it or not, this is my (new-ish) wife's bike. I unloaded wife 1.0 in 2008, married wife 2.0 in 2012.
1995 Yamaha Virago 535, V-twin, pair of Mikuni carbs in downdraft configuration.
As I mentioned above, the carbs were pulled and sent off to SoTX for a rebuild. About a month ago I got them installed, got the system primed up and actually had a running motorcycle. It was a nice rumbly purr you'd expect from a V-Twin. Seemed to me that the bench-tuning was rather nice.
Noticed a leak in the fuel pump, coming out the body.
Sourced a replacement, took a couple of weeks to get it in and installed. Went to fire it up and the front carb started venting all sorts of fuel. Coming out the intake horn (yeah, clamp not tight enough) and out of the emissions control goodies that are connected to the float bowl vent nipple.
Pulled the float bowl cover off and tickled the float and needle while running the fuel pump (small bursts) to flush out any gunk that was in there, all good.
Pulled spark plug and turned it over a few times to chug out any fuel that may have pooled in the cylinder.
Re-assembled necessary components and fired it up.
Horrible throttle response. Seems to me that one of the sliders is sticking and we'll go ahead and blame the front one since this seems to be the problematic carb.
What are the odds I got fuel on the dry (wrong) side of the carb, where the diaphram resides?
Any tips or should I just fire it up and try to "blow out the cobwebs"?
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