MagickNinja
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The bike still refuses to run correctly.
We totally disassembled the carb, took all the jets out and checked everything. Everything is clean, like very clean. The main is a 155 and the pilot is a 47.5. We tried a different pilot jet that had bleeder holes and you could tell the bike was running richer but still did the same thing...Now I'm wondering if it's the carb at all.
Just to explain again, the bike acts as if it has a rev-limiter. When sitting at idle it sounds great. When revving it at a stand still you can tell it should be revving faster but it still revs. Then when you take off and hit the gas, after about 2/4 throttle it doesn't go anymore, it just stays. Sounds like a rev limiter. It doesn't want to take the throttle. Only takes gas gradually. I do not know how my elevation (2700ft) affects things.
The general consensus around here seems to be the bike isn't getting enough fuel...but this makes no sense to me as the bike doesn't backfire. If the bike was running lean...why am I not showing the extremely well documented and known problem of these bikes backfiring. At this point, I'd LOVE to hear a backfire because at least it'd be something different than what I've been hearing. Thus far, only a tiny "Puh" is heard on shutdown.
I've tried running the bike with the filter out and it doesn't seem to make much difference other than it gets louder. I've tried every spacer setting from stock to no spacer and the bike did not change. I think with no spacer we could smell some gas but it acted the same. With 2/4 washers, the bike revved it's highest, but still not like it should and no matter what it doesn't take the throttle on take off. You have to gradually give it gas.
We've checked the petcock, running in Prime or On doesn't seem to make much difference. On Prime the gas comes out of the petcock in a steady stream.
I'm really getting frustrated here. I'm starting to see why I got such a great deal.
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