Subject: RE: carb settings

Pull the plug wire before you crank it. Make sure it touches absolutely
nothing or you will fell the electron bite :) Don't worry, it don't hurt
too bad. Warm the bike up well before doing this...lots easier.

Chris in NC

From: Pete Scheer <plsc-@tycoelectronics.com>
Reply-To: Loopfram-@topica.com
To: "'Loopfram-@topica.com'" <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Subject: RE: carb settings
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:04:07 -0400

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Chris,
I've read about the method of firing one side 4-5 times by removing the
plug
wire from the other side.
I 've never done this test. The only way I can see to do this is to get
the bike to idle and then pull one plug wire off. Is this right??
Will I get shocked???
sorry for a dumb question, but I just want to avoid those fast moving
electrons whenever possible!!
Thanks
Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Berry [mailto:guzzis-@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 6:04 PM
To: Loopfram-@topica.com
Subject: Re: carb settings

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Those settings are for the air mixture screw (no spring, mostly inside the
carb) and are correct for a starting point, tho it should be 2 to 2-1/2 on
the right. The idle screw should be set so that the cylinder you are
working on only fires 5 or so times with the other cylinder's plug
disconnected.
To set the mixture screw, turn it in or out and see by 1/4 turns until the
bike idles faster/better, then starts to falter...reverse it back to where
it idled fastest/best. Do the other side. Re set idle speed screws as
it'll be a bit higher now. Repeat as necessary (once or twice should do
it).
My bike is a biotch to start without the choke too. You could buy some
flipper chokes, but these being on the carbs are kinda hard to reach. But,
theres no cable and it gets one more thing off the handlebars.

From: "Zerhackermann ." <chopp-@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Loopfram-@topica.com
To: Loopfram-@topica.com
Subject: carb settings
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 20:13:14 -0000

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As you all probably don't recall, I had some black smoke coming from my
right pipe at idle. I fiddled with the choke. as suspected, there is no0
slack in the cables, this would mean that the choke is at least partially
activated. I could have farted around with it for a while and shortened

the

sleeve so that it could have some slack. But in the end I just ripped the
sucker off the bike entirely.

Now the smoke is gone and the bike Idles quite nicely. However it is

bitchy

to start (it does start but it does a lot of complaining) no biggee

except

being another symptom.

More disturbing is the transition from idle to moving. It wasn't bad

today

(cool and raining) but previously,on a hot day, it was bad enough that I
had
to rev it quite high and feed some serious clutch to get rolling. But

only

if I was starting on an incline.

so anyhow, it seems the idle mixture may be off and quite possibly the
synchronization as well. The synch is no sweat. I'll do that tonight. But
I'm having trouble finding the specs to reset the idle mixture to

original

(set to zero and adjust) was it all in and 1.5 out on the left and 2.5 on
the right?
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Subject: RE: carb settings

Author: Chris Berry

Date: Jul 17, 2001, 12:03 PM

Post ID: 1707525934

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