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ToesNose Serious Thumper Offline Pardon me, do you have Hot Sauce? Posts: 1993 Mooresville, NC Gender:	Re: Jam's 1987 Suzuki Savage Project. Bobberish ma Reply #15 - 03/31/13 at 04:32:38 Is that a Rebel with a Blue Collar Bobber kit? Nice scoot Jam Gratz!
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Reply #16 - 03/31/13 at 04:59:25

jamforthelamb wrote on 11/18/12 at 15:53:42:

Thanks guys! I'll see about putting some Gokart pics in the Cafe forum.

Got the drag bar and risers installed today, also worked on a little of the corrosion on the bike.

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Chose black sockets because I'm going to be painting the fork lowers, and a lot of other stuff black over time. Will take the "5/8th's" markings off of them eventually, but thought it was kinda funny for now.

Dont these things wobble - the risers I mean. Way back when - 1995 to be exact, I made 9" aluminum risers, I could not get em to stop wiggling. I eventually had to weld a cross brace. But of course 9" = lot more leverage than the 3" or so of a socket ...
If I recall I also had a wider handle bar, had to take up all the cable slack I thought.

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Re: Jam's 1987 Suzuki Savage Project. Bobberish ma
Reply #18 - 03/31/13 at 16:33:25

Clean your jets. Idle decay is the pilot circuit sucking up trash and jamming up. Get a decent inline fuel filter, Taylor with the bronze stone or similar that can be dismantled and cleaned. It helps, a lot.

Pretty sure the entire production run has used a Mikuni BS40 CV carb... what you REALLY want is a 36 or 38mm normal carb, cable operated slide instead of vacuum. Much more tunable. And fewer parts inside.

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Reply #19 - 03/31/13 at 19:26:51

Toesnoes: No, as far as I know the guy who built it either had the stuff made, or did it himself. No particular company. Thanks!

Srinath: So far I've had no problems.

Mikey2004: I've mostly used 00 Steel wool, but I plan on painting a lot of the things that are corroded.

WD: Thanks! I'll move forward on cleaning up the carb.

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Reply #20 - 04/02/13 at 20:32:50

Ok, got the carb all cleaned up, also replaced the top carb screws with hex head screws, and replaced the spacer with two small washers. These washers weren't made out of plastic or brass, will they still be ok? I noticed when tuning the carb that turning the fuel mix screw outward past three turns made little difference on the idle, so from what I've read that means my pilot jet is too small correct? The bike came with a stock exhaust that's drilled if that makes any difference. I plan on getting Lancer's jet kit soon as I plan on putting a cone filter on and changing the exhaust anyhow, but on riding it around today it seems to run well, and no backfires now also!

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Reply #21 - 04/03/13 at 04:55:25

Jetting is a trial and error thing - but if it is running well you may not need to do anything for now. When I jet.....I tend to make several trials to find the corredt jet. You want the smallest jet that runs well and is not too lean. With a stock air cleaner and muffler I don't see any reason to go over a 52.5.....and on my bike a 50 runs great with the two washer slide change you have made. The two washers raises the needle more than the 3 washers would, and it richens the mixture up for everything from idle up to about 3/4 throttle where the main jet does most of the control.

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jamforthelamb YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 15	Re: Jam's 1987 Suzuki Savage Project. Bobberish ma Reply #23 - 04/03/13 at 17:42:31 Super Thumper wrote on 04/03/13 at 13:21:31: That's a nice looking Honda Rebel...is it a 250 or a 450? It's a 250, but it's light as heck, so no big . Thanks Dave, I don't plan to mess with the jets until I get the mods that I want since I'll probably need to, just looking ahead. -jftl
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