3CL won't maintain idle until fully warmed up

Hi Steve, glad my very limited, just autodidactic learned knowledge can help sometimes. It is very common to forget the choke sliders and they have a massive impact on the mixture. Learned to know a true gentleman and his wife by helping them out while I was in the states. Freshly assembled Jota stalled after 10 - 20 secs of ideling. checked all settings and wondered why mixture screws were all different. Set them to the same standard setting and bike cut off instantly. Checked the choke sliders and all 3 were on different Levels, one even open when the other 2 were closed. adjusted them, bike fired up and ran constantly without missing a beat. Richard was quite pleased and we had a great evening with some of the best sea food I ever had in my entire life! Still hope to go over to California with my wife to visit them again. ;-)

@Sir Sidney Ruffdiamond: believe it or not, the only damage I had on the Zane was a dead battery... The rest was old fuel or the standard starting issues - nothing spectacular...
 
You should be able to hold the engine on partial throttle with the chokes closed after a few seconds and warm it up. It will idle after a couple of minutes.

As long as the chokes close, it doesn't matter.

Paul
 
FWI, set the inter carby vacuum balance at 3300 ( or 3000 )rpm, why on earth balance carbies at idle was not sensible to me, we do not ride around on idle, we ride in top at 3300 or above, who cares about idle balance. Many the time an owner would collect his ride from me, post iis fitting, rejetting and other mods, "different bike!" Also, a triple will idle from cold when setup correctly, and by correctly that does not include any oem BTZ ignition. HKZ could be coaxed into sort of cold idle. Actually have a soft spot for the HKZ. The BTZ was a hoax by Bosch, i'll not be altered on that view....j
 
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