haakeik said:
I would try to clean the carbs first, with a ultrasonic cleaner. Did mine this winter. My slides looks nearly the same and I have no problem at low rews.
Could it be some bad idle jets?
If still bad running, follow Piets advice.
Really don't understand...
When restoring bikes, owners are quite comfortable on spending hundreds and thousands on chrome and paint, thousands are sunk into the engine, many hundreds go into renovating the wheels and chassis. No chains, brakes or tyres can be
good expensive enough. More often than not, the carbs (gearbox and clutch are likely candidates as well) are forgotten... I see it so often it no longer surprises me.
All it takes is a couple of gasket sets, a pair of slides, a handfull of brassware and an hour of patience at the workbench to return them to satisfactory working condition, usually less than 100 bucks for a single linkage-less carb. There's more to carb maintenance than cleaning the body and polishing the float bowl... :
Carbs and their individual components should be regarded as consumables, just as chains and tyres. Using worn carbs will only wear them out even further and quicker still, raise fuel consumption to astronomic levels and generally result in steadily deteriorating engine performance, often not noticed by the rider because it happens so slowly.
Ollys' slides belong in the scrap bin, and, judging by the slides, I suspect quite a few other bits inside his carbs as well. Corrosion and wear is quite evident on the needles alone!
New slides and other internals will not restore Ollys' carbs to 100%, but will be an enormous improvement over what he has now. The alternative is to replace them completely with
NEW instruments.
piet
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. This tends to put people off, as it is only the basics.
