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After replacing the fuel petcock earlier this week I finally had a chance to see if my carburetor cleaning adventure went as well as I had hoped... Set the choke, followed the kick procedure in the manual and it started on the first try! (Yes, lucky... no skill involved in this, mind you)
Anyway, I fiddled with idle for a bit to get it settled in at an acceptable rate and after about 5 minutes of idle, I tried to go to half choke and it died. Started it up again on full choke and gave it some throttle as I set the choke to half and it died again.
Basically after quite a bit of fiddling, I've come to the conclusion that any choke position other than all the way out is no bueno at the moment.
I'm certain I got the carb clean (at least all the passages I could see, I could have missed one) and everything else seems to be working properly. (Throttle, idle adjuster, transient enricher) I haven't tried riding to see if there's an obvious rich/lean condition yet.
Does anyone here have experience with Mikuni carbs or have suggestions on what might be causing the issue? Depending on how this evening goes, I may pull the choke assembly and see what I can see...
Thanks in advance.
-Deek
Anyway, I fiddled with idle for a bit to get it settled in at an acceptable rate and after about 5 minutes of idle, I tried to go to half choke and it died. Started it up again on full choke and gave it some throttle as I set the choke to half and it died again.
Basically after quite a bit of fiddling, I've come to the conclusion that any choke position other than all the way out is no bueno at the moment.
I'm certain I got the carb clean (at least all the passages I could see, I could have missed one) and everything else seems to be working properly. (Throttle, idle adjuster, transient enricher) I haven't tried riding to see if there's an obvious rich/lean condition yet.
Does anyone here have experience with Mikuni carbs or have suggestions on what might be causing the issue? Depending on how this evening goes, I may pull the choke assembly and see what I can see...
Thanks in advance.
-Deek