Recent content by bigmak

No gas leaks, new air filter and fuel filter last month.

I have been seeing a steady decline in my gas mileage. As of my last tank, I was at 23mpg. The carbs have been cleaned, floats leveled, peashooter....you name it. I have told that I may be running too rich, and that I should adjust my mixture (which is currently at 2.5 turns out). Now, I'm...

Both of the brake bleeders on my rear caliper are leaking. I put some thread tape on them, and that seemed to stop the leaking around the threads. But they are still leaking out of the top?? They are torqued to spec, and I've recently serviced the caliper and cleaned both the screw and the...

You got it Buster! That WAS the problem. I went back in last night and re-bled the brakes (emptied the resivoir twice) and got a few more air bubbles out of there. Works so much better now. Can even lock up the rear tire, not that I should be doing that anyway, but I wanted to make sure that...

Installed the new seal kit today. The old seals actually still looked good, but no use in taking a chance. I got the new seals in, cleaned everything up and put it all back together. Bleeded the brakes, and took it for a test drive. Now it's worse than before!! LOL!! I applies enough...

Checked the lines in the immediate area, seem to be clean, no drips or anything. Also, where this stuff puddles on the case is definitely brown and not green in color, so I'm almost positive this is oil.

I decided to take my air box off this morning, and I noticed that the bottom of the box has a thin film of oil on it. The weird thing is that the crank case hose was on tight, and I even opened the "puke can" and it was bone dry. I dont' think the leak could be coming from the manifold...

Oily Boots? I have noticed that I have oil on the rubber boots that connect the carb to the manifold, as well as the rubber boots connected to the v-boost valve. This oil has been running down and is puddling right on top of the case (right underneath boots). I've checked the crank case...

Thanks for the tips! My repair kit should be here tomorrow, we'll see how that works too.

I looked at the rear caliper schematic, and it doesn't show an o'ring for the bleeders? Should I just replace the bleeders since they are leaking, or is there another way to handle this?

The inboard brake pad was worn quite a bit more than the outboard. I woudl assume that would be because the inboard piston was moving as designed, while the outboard was stuck. To my knoweldge, the calipers have never been rebuilt, and I haven't given it a thoughough cleaning since I've had...

I tried to replace my rear brake pads today and I had a really hard time trying to get the outboard piston to move back to make room for the new pad. It seemed to be stuck? The inboard piston moves like butter, and I had no problem getting the new pad in there. Does anyone know how to fix...

Oh, man.....you have no idea what a relief it is to finally (hopefully) be done with these carbs. I only had the bike for a few weeks when the problems began. It all started with the "puke can" in the air box was not properly sealed, the screws were missing, so the airbox was full of oil...

WOO HOO!!!! That was it. I just needed to adjust up the ilde screw on the main carb, and tune down the other 3. That gave me a starting point to where I can hook the Motion pro up, and begin the sync process. Thanks soo much for all the help, I REALLY appreciate it. Anyone know how to...

yes, I've checked the float bowl vents, all clear. I've done the shotgun, but not the peashooter. I saw instructions on here, I'll do that tomorrow.