carb cleaning instructions for newbies

Carbs are above my pay scale.....I would pull and send to Rick...you have much better things to do with your time than open that can of worms...There will be other who have had success with rebuilding carbs, but man...Again, it's above my pay scale.
 
Maybe I"m psyching myself out....I have worked on 750-1050 dominators...bought a holly book and read it from cover to cover. Hat's off to you JR....I really should learn at least how these carbs work, just been too involved with every other part on this bike.
 
Good lord that was painful to try and watch I only made it halfway through the second video. Doesn't know the terminology or proper steps in cleaning these carbs. What a moron almost 9 minutes to get the damn fuel bowl off!

New thread title: carb cleaning instructions for newbies, by a newbie :rotf:
 
Here is my opinion on carbs....

I learned more about carbs by talking to ZLMark and Paulfun on the phone than I ever knew. I am a mechanic by trade and right when I was getting into the trade carbs were phasing out. I did have carb class in tech school and we went over the inner works of the carb. I got out into the field and almost never touched one (diesels don't use carbs). I had my fair share of getting pi$$ed off at lawn mowers and weed eaters over the years with no luck. What was I doing wrong?? The same thing that 99% of the time gets over looked....GETTING THE CARB(S) CLEAN..... If you are someone who races and you are constantly changing set-ups then your knowledge and patience with carbs better be very deep, but if you have a daily rider that runs great and then starts going south, it should NOT be a major operation to get back up and running. Carbs are actually engineering marvels. When they are set up right and clean, they work excellent. Carbs are delicate and intricate. Taking carbs off a bike that has run basically flawlessly for a long while and then start having issues should be pretty straight forward. Besides dirt and varnish in a carb there are not a ton of parts to fail and cause issues.

You have to take them slow and just pay attention to what you are doing...You can run into difficulty if you attempt to fix something that some other dingus brain attempted to "fix" or "jet" when they should not be in charge of something as simple as pushing a shopping cart...When I bought my honda, I got it from my buddy the original owner. Bike is a 2004 and I bought it in 2010 with 2700 miles on it. The dealer put pipes on it new and "jetted" the carb. Idiots!!! They put a DJ needle in it and cut the factory diaphram spring down to DJ specs and left the rest of the carb stock (mistake) After I took pics of everything and posted it up to my guys on the website they told me what had been done. I went to honda and bought a stock spring and then I bought a FP kit and set it up correctly....Now she runs perfect....
 
i took them out yesterday for replacing the 150jet to the 145, no job with pods so 30min later i hit the road...
throttle response was much beter, flew by my house like a rocket.. no problems
whent to the garage today and must of have done something wrong because the carbs are leaking feul tru pods? did i turn them to much? is it the needle? thanks
 
zlMark said:
And the tools he was using, he's begging for stripped screws!
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I hope I havent gotten any bad habbits from that video! Mark if you say hes doing it wrong, I trust he is doin it wrong. None the less, seeing someone cracka set open helped calm my fears and shed light on the unknown. It at least showed me what I could expect to find on mine.
 
He didn't get into any cleaning or even the removal of the pilot air screws halfway through the second video so I haven't a clue if he's cleaning them properly. The part that blew it for me was the moron showed using a drywall screw to insert into the non removable, non replaceable float valve seat that he referred to as a jet. Good way to **** up a set of carbs!

Maybe I'll bust into a set of spares I have laying around and document a good one for us.
 
kavadi said:
i took them out yesterday for replacing the 150jet to the 145, no job with pods so 30min later i hit the road...
throttle response was much beter, flew by my house like a rocket.. no problems
whent to the garage today and must of have done something wrong because the carbs are leaking feul tru pods? did i turn them to much? is it the needle? thanks
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Check for dirt in the float bowls. Check the petcock to make sure the filter is sealed against the petcock body properly. Check the fuel line isn't rotting. Check float heights by using the clear tubing method.

Now that you have fuel dripping out of the pods that means you have fuel in the oil. Gonna have to do an oil change. You better get this solved or you may hydrolock the motor and bend a connecting rod.

Pull the carbs and put them on the bench with a auxiliary fuel tank and make sure they aren't leaking and the float heights are correct using the clear tubing method described in the service manual. Let them sit for several minutes to make sure they aren't leaking!
 
zlMark said:
He didn't get into any cleaning or even the removal of the pilot air screws halfway through the second video so I haven't a clue if he's cleaning them properly. The part that blew it for me was the moron showed using a drywall screw to insert into the non removable, non replaceable float valve seat that he referred to as a jet. Good way to **** up a set of carbs!

Maybe I'll bust into a set of spares I have laying around and document a good one for us.
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LOL good thing I didn't try to take mine out.
 
The guy is a fruitcake and has no busness making vidios of things he has no clue about!!!
 
zlMark said:
Check for dirt in the float bowls. Check the petcock to make sure the filter is sealed against the petcock body properly. Check the fuel line isn't rotting. Check float heights by using the clear tubing method.

Now that you have fuel dripping out of the pods that means you have fuel in the oil. Gonna have to do an oil change. You better get this solved or you may hydrolock the motor and bend a connecting rod.

Pull the carbs and put them on the bench with a auxiliary fuel tank and make sure they aren't leaking and the float heights are correct using the clear tubing method described in the service manual. Let them sit for several minutes to make sure they aren't leaking!
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i pulled out the carbs, noticed that the vacuum line was'nt atacht to the petcock could this make my tank empty? the carbs had no leaks before i placed the 145k, i will do a oil change now, run to store for oil.
 
kavadi said:
i pulled out the carbs, noticed that the vacuum line was'nt atacht to the petcock could this make my tank empty? the carbs had no leaks before i placed the 145k, i will do a oil change now, run to store for oil.
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Depends on the position of the petcock lever, if it was in "Prime" the vacuum doesn't effect the fuel flow [essentially runs straight through the petcock] and the entire tank could drain via a leaky carb. If it was in "Run" or "Reserve" with the vacuum line off and still had fuel flowing, then your petcock needs either rebuilt or replaced. Markus56 offers a rebuilding service, and Pingel offers a replacement manual petcock.
 
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