Congratulations at first, to be a Savage owner!
And you are at the right forum to get the right advices/suggestions/trouble sorting out scheme.
I did get my a 2000 Savage, that was sitting 6 years in a garage, a real garage Queen, very low milage.. everyone think its brand new.
In any way.. its a very simple bike, to own, to drive and to maintain!
Soo, even as it is this simple bike, one can always run in to problems?
One higlited problem on this site is the vacum petkock issue, and there are solutions for that!
I can tell that my 20 year vacum petcock is still working, no craklings in the vacum tube, and no lose fittings!
Then there is clogged airfilter.. easy to replace.. for almoste no money at all.. you can do it yourself!
And then.. there is a carburator on this bike, that is made of soft aluminimum and the jets is often made of brass!
In any case, the carburator could be clogged by residues of old petrol, the jets could fetch some of this?
And then.. you and I dont know if former owners have don enything to the jets of the carburator?
Im kind of sure.. to 90% that owner of this kind of bike dont tweaks about jets anyhow.. at least if they keept the original exhauste?
I do have a another one on my bike, its a Leo Vince Silvertail Slip on, its a Italian brand and its a Slip on, one dont need to do any other adjustments, it supose to have a better look?
Thats about that, IE about modifications and the famouse petkock issue!
To that, even if ones original vacum petkock is working, there is a petkock filter issue, for every bike, and that is if the petkock filter is clogged.. mayby mostly on old bikes, standing several years in a garage.
Its one of the easyest things to examine, if one is young and handy, and drain the tank before!