Recent content by dhc1975

Hi guys, need some advice here on what my vmax is doing. I was riding the other day when all of sudden the bike started running rough. I rode home and noticed a strong odor of gas coming out of both exhaust pipes. The carbs were synched and air fuel mixture was correct beforehand and the bike...

Cool. Appreciate the info.

Anybody know what the operating temp. or where the needle should be on the temp gauge during normal riding on a 2001 vmax 1200n. My temp gauge sits about halfway mark and during idle it heats up until the fan cuts on, but then drops back down once I start off again. Trying to figure out if I...

Yeah stock forks you can have from 5- 14.7 psi. I know the seals are not bad because I just did a complete overhaul of the forks. I think I am going to do the progressive spring upgrade, air in the forks just suck not too crazy about how it feels anyways. Thanks for the info guys.

I've heard that before, where's the best place to get the progressive springs? and what all do I have to change out other than just the springs and the caps? how much fluid will be needed with the progressive springs too?

I changed the seals in my forks due to one of them leaking but now they will not hold air pressure. I would put 10 p.s.i in them and it would leak out in the matter of a few hours. I changed the oring in the fork cap then the valve core and the valve stem o ring the leak is slower now but the...

As far as I know the float needles and seats have never been changed, I wondered the same thing, unfortunatley there are not stanped numbers on the seat or needle like there is on the jets. I measured how far out the seat is from the carb and it is roughly around .165". I don't think I am going...

Stock jets and block, a/f screws were at 2 1/4 turns out,stock setting, no mods just stock bike. The bike had some older ufo pipes on it that were extremely loud, I changed the pipes to stock, and in the carbs only the jet needle, and main jet had benn changed which I ended up putting back to stock.

okay, I bent the float bowl tangs in as far as they would go and I finally reached the 17mm mark on the dot, but that makes no sense why I would have to bend them in all the way just to get that reading, maybe the floats are bad.

I had the carbs on the bike, even put a level on them to make sure they were level and they were. I rode for two days with carbs on bike at this setting. I checked level after 35 mins of riding and it was showing what is in the pic. The spark plugs were showing lean conditions with white dry...

The black tape on the float gauge is 17mm from top of index line.

Closer view of carb.

Sorry about the delay guys, I was trying to send the pics from my phone while I was on the road(truck driver), but I am back home now here's pics of my wet level reading, dry reading, and caliper reading.

I checked every internal part of the carbs to make sure nothing was out of place. I had put the carbs back on the bike and its been running decent, but seems its running still lean. A little popping and stutter in low speed, so I figured its because I still don't have the float level 100% on...

Has anyone else ever encountered this problem?