CB350 Starting after Rebuild

[Koble]

I am having trouble getting my CB350 running after a rebuild. I disassembled the carbs, cleaned them, and put them back together. Camshaft timing is correct and spark timing should be right, buy I'll check it tomorrow.
I can get the bike to start up, then it revs high and dies within seconds. No tach reading because I have no tach cable. When kicking it over, I can see exhaust smoke from both cylinders. I have a car battery jumped to the bike.
The fuel lines only fill to a certain point, then it air locks up (I think). Sometimes the right carburator will leak out of the overflow. I know I need rebuild kits for the carbs, but shouldn't I be able to run it as is? I dont wanna drop $50 yet. Also for the mixture screw, which way is rich- in or out?

 

[Koble]

Also no exhaust pipes installed, does this matter?

 

[jungalist]

install the pipes, can't get a bike to run right without them, second you better set the float hight, overflow will be solved by this. then you can start fiddling with the carb screws. also is the stock airbox used or podfilters?

and 50$ is change when it comes to perfectionize the tuning of your engine

 

[Koble]

I put the pipes on and she ran great! First time since 2001. It seems that it was smoking more from the left cylinder, hopefully just from more oil over there. Now I'm doing some carb adjustments while I wait for a new right crankcase cover and oil slinger cover to fix my oil leak. The carb is no longer overflowing, maybe the needle was just stuck.

Any ideas about air in the fuel lines? It draws fuel just fine, but it only fills to a certain point in the lines, and its like the gas cuts off and wont allow any more into the line until more is burnt. Is this a problem?

 

[xb33bsa]

that is normal
are you looking for a clutch cover case ?

 

[Koble]

Bought one today on eBay. I had to drill out the old screws on mine and made a mess of it... I could have welded, redrilled, and retapped it, but I decided to just pay up.

 

[jungalist]

nice to hear the bike is running!