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Posted by John Johnson on April 30, 2006, 7:44 pm
> I am getting an 87 Fazer back on the road for a friend after several
> years under a tarp. I actually got it firing on all 4 now but i'm not
> much of a carb guy so here's what what i'm working with...
> 4 Keihin carbs thouroughly gummed up, i did a basic clean and i think i
>
> have most everything clean and moving as it should..
> Problem #1 Carb #2 is pumping fuel out of an overflow on the top, my
> guess is the floats are not floating or the needle not seating but it
> looked fine to the eye.
> Problem #2 With the electric fuel pump engaged it wants to idle at
> about 9000 rpm.. (seems a little high to me :-D ) Unplug the fuel pump
>
> and it drops down to about 2000 until it runs out of fuel. If i plug it
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> back in when it's running it'll shoot straight back up.
>
>
> Short of a major rebuild of the carbs any ideas on therse 2 problems
> would be apprecieated.
>
>
> Thanks
> Mark
Avoiding a full rebuild probably will require the purchase of another
rack of carbs. There's plenty of good carb cleaning advice here in the
archives (Krusty Kritter posted lots of stuff in the past), so go there
first. Cleaning carbs isn't terribly difficult, but requires attention
to detail, the proper tools (to avoid damaging the parts), and
organization (a clean workbench, labels, photos, notes, and do one carb
at a time).
Speaking as someone who has, in the past, paid somebody ridiculous
amounts of money to do carb work, I strongly recommend your learning
this skill. A primary reason I make this recommendation is my belief
that the work that I paid for was never actually done; the problem did
not disappear, and I later heard stories about that mechanic that caused
me to never go back.
--
Later,
John
johajohn@indianahoosiers.edu
'indiana' is a 'nolnn' and 'hoosier' is a 'solkk'. Indiana doesn't solkk.
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