Flash3741

Thanks for the tip! I did check the pitcock, clean and functioning properly. Vacuum is great also. F

I've had the bike for 2 years. It had been crashed and the right side was pretty well wiped off. Left side except the mirror was fine. Got a deal on stock pipes and restored the rest. Fuel had been left in bike too long and I had to clean carbs, fuel lines, tank. I've run Sea Foam thru it, and replaced the plugs afterward. Tell me more about enrichment circuit. After it starts, it runs great! Restarts fine all day. Unable to locate idle mixture screws on bottom of carbs. Only adjustment I see is in between #2 & #3 carbs and it's the throttle cable adjustment. Thanks the enrichment circuit is mistakenly called the "choke" but works opposite of a choke... a choke blocks off air and leaves fuel unchanged, but an enrichment circuit, like the 'bird has, just adds fuel at idle when the "choke" lever is pulled... These are very small ports, and are very easy to plug up when the bike is sitting, and are also pretty hard to get clean... So, what exactly does it do when starting it? how do you get it started, exactly, when it's cold? Mike It acts like it's flooding. Sometimes a small shot of ether will get it to start, but I don't like to use it . It also sounds like only 2 cylinders are firing #2 and then it dies. If you give it a little gas it also kills it. I usually set the idle up and like I said it sounds like 2 cylinders running until it warms up a little then give it throttle and it will kick. Flash

I've had the bike for 2 years. It had been crashed and the right side was pretty well wiped off. Left side except the mirror was fine. Got a deal on stock pipes and restored the rest. Fuel had been left in bike too long and I had to clean carbs, fuel lines, tank. I've run Sea Foam thru it, and replaced the plugs afterward. Tell me more about enrichment circuit. After it starts, it runs great! Restarts fine all day. Unable to locate idle mixture screws on bottom of carbs. Only adjustment I see is in between #2 & #3 carbs and it's the throttle cable adjustment. Thanks First thing I did after running Sea Foam thru it.

I've got a problem with my 98 bird. It's hard to start cold and it acts like it's running too rich. I had to replace the Vance Hines (crushed right side) with the stock cans which could cause this. I pulled out all main jets and found #140 in carbs 1&4 and #142 in carbs 2&3. Float bowl in 1&4 were dirty and 2&3 were spotless. Shouldn't #140's be run straight across? This bike was originally from New Mexico at elevation 5,000ft. now I'm at 2300 ft.. Any suggestions? I also have the left side Vance Hines slip-on if someone is interested, It's in great shape. Flash

Why were the carbs rebuilt? Unless the bike sat for a long time, a carb rebuild would not be necessary. Was something else occuring that lead to the carb rebuild? Consider adding a can of sea-foam to your next tankful, it'll clean the various circuits and orifices in the carbs. BTW be very careful with the starting fluid, or as like to call it "cylinder head cracking fluid". The bike had been sitting in a garage with fuel in it for more than a year. Tried the seafoam- it fouled the plugs. Bike runs well when running. Doesn't take much to get her going with start fluid. It wants to start, but dies after a couple of seconds. Looking at the linkage for the choke it appears it's tied to the 2 middle cylinders only

This is with full choke. It dies if you accelerate. Runs fine after a little warm up. Starts fine after engine is warm.

I have a 98 bird that is hard to start. It turning over and tries to start, sputters and dies. It will fire up okay by using a little starting fluid. Plugs are new, carbs rebuilt, only 12k miles. Thanks