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Joshua YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 33	white spacer mod, now bike runs like a moped 06/03/09 at 11:41:42 So I did the white spacer mod this morning. Now the bike drives like a moped. No power to speak of. She barely wants to do 45mph on a flat road. Did I do something wrong? I put in 2 #3 washers and adjusted the floats a little. I'm supposes to go on a 6hr trip this Friday, and this won't work.
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PTRider Senior Member Offline Posts: 397	Re: white spacer mod, now bike runs like a moped Reply #1 - 06/03/09 at 11:45:39 Mine runs great. I removed the white spacer and replaced it with a stack of four 3mm washers, then put everything else back together exactly as it came apart.
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dasch Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1137	Re: white spacer mod, now bike runs like a moped Reply #2 - 06/03/09 at 12:09:47 You did something wrong, allright But is that it? Meaning - no power?? No pops, black smoke, surging, flooding... Any other symptoms?
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diamond jim Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1425 North Alabama Gender:	Re: white spacer mod, now bike runs like a moped Reply #3 - 06/03/09 at 12:12:19 Assuming the float bowl is correct, I'm thinking it's a diaphram issue. Either the tab wasn't lined up right, the big spring was left out (did that twice but caught it before I put it in), or missing spring on the needle
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Joshua YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 33	Re: white spacer mod, now bike runs like a moped Reply #4 - 06/03/09 at 12:25:01 No other symptoms other than it doesn't backfire now on shutdown. I made sure I put tab in the right spot and the both springs are in (I'm pretty sure). It doesn't surge now but it used to a little bit before it was warmed up.
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srinath Serious Thumper Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 5349	Re: white spacer mod, now bike runs like a moped Reply #5 - 06/03/09 at 12:26:16 Yea that spring can get bunched up if you dont fit it on right. Either that, or you activated the moped setting, I have no idea how to fix, it, My virago is in that setting now, and worse yet the GS500 is in the "dead" setting. Cool. Srinath.
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Joshua YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 33	Re: white spacer mod, now bike runs like a moped Reply #6 - 06/03/09 at 12:31:54 Yeah, I suppose the spring could be bunched up, I can see how that might happen.
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Re: white spacer mod, now bike runs like a moped
Reply #7 - 06/03/09 at 12:39:29

To test that, take some chop sticks, and remove the air filter and o in through the air box and stick the chopstick in gently into the air intake and lift the slides, if it dont move smoothly, that = bunch up spring.
That way you will know for sure, it cant be disturbed by your yanking the carb top.
BTW the diaphragm can have a rip in it ... yes that is also moped setting ...
Cool.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28886 L.A. California Gender:	Re: white spacer mod, now bike runs like a moped Reply #8 - 06/03/09 at 13:19:57 Get an original SSM, blessed by the parts man at the local stealership. Open to page 432, Moped Exercism. With 10mm wrench in hand, clang a nearby toolbox and say " Cast thy moped OUT, in the name of Suzuki, Honda, Izusu and Toyota"
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DrunkenDwarf Senior Member Offline Morning Zombie Posts: 325 Seattle, WA Gender:	Re: white spacer mod, now bike runs like a moped Reply #9 - 06/03/09 at 13:25:49 Does the material of the washers matter? I'm having difficulty finding smaller than #4 in stainless or nylon. -D. Dwarf
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Joshua YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 33	Re: white spacer mod, now bike runs like a moped Reply #10 - 06/03/09 at 13:32:42 That's a good question. I would guess that it wouldn't matter as long as the material was gas resistant. I had problems finding smaller washers at lowe's, HD, and ACE. I finally found them at a store called Automotive Fasteners.
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John_D FSO Serious Thumper Offline Ridin' and smilin' Posts: 1658 Vancouver, WA Gender:	Re: white spacer mod, now bike runs like a moped Reply #11 - 06/03/09 at 14:56:43 I never found any stainless washers smaller than #4, so I went with the #3 with the standard coating, yellow zinc, or something like that? It looks like the hold-down plate on the needle was coated the same way, so if it'll hold up, the washers should too.
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Re: white spacer mod, now bike runs like a moped
Reply #12 - 06/03/09 at 15:03:59

So what happens when you install the needle retaining plate upside down with the little nipple up? Probably nothing. But isn't there another hole on that plate- an air passage hole of some type? Can't remember right now.

If not the carb, then maybe the air filter is dirty and the extra gas is not making it run too rich when the main jet kicks in.

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John_D FSO Serious Thumper Offline Ridin' and smilin' Posts: 1658 Vancouver, WA Gender:	Re: white spacer mod, now bike runs like a moped Reply #13 - 06/03/09 at 15:07:30 The plate on mine had the 2 holes for the hold down screws, and 2 notches of the same dia. They line up with 2 holes in the bottom of the slide thingy. Or at least I hope they do, either way, the bike runs ok.
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diamond jim Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1425 North Alabama Gender:	Re: white spacer mod, now bike runs like a moped Reply #14 - 06/03/09 at 16:18:04 The notches- that's what I mean. Can the plate be installed wrong and if so what could effects be? Are they for vacuum?
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