KnowFear
Cruisin' Guzzisti
- Joined
- Feb 2, 2011
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- 103
Problem: the engine does not progress smoothly from idle, I need to blip the throttle several times to get the engine to rev past the progression area. It becomes annoying to get bogged down at most traffic stops. Once moving, the carburetion is great and the bike pulls very nicely all the way to redline.
Bike: 1983 LeMans III, with stock airbox & exhaust. The carbs were fully disassembled, cleaned, and re-assembled with new jets/needles about a year ago. The accelerator pumps have been disconnected.
Jetting:
- atomizers = AB268 (owners manual calls for AB265)
- K18 needles, 3rd notch
- idle = 50 (screws @ 1.5 turns out)
- main = 118 (manual calls for 115)
- 60/3 slides
- the choke cables are loose
So, the only deviations from original are the slightly larger mains, and slightly larger atomizers.
I'm scratching my head, wondering what I should do next. Any ideas?
Bike: 1983 LeMans III, with stock airbox & exhaust. The carbs were fully disassembled, cleaned, and re-assembled with new jets/needles about a year ago. The accelerator pumps have been disconnected.
Jetting:
- atomizers = AB268 (owners manual calls for AB265)
- K18 needles, 3rd notch
- idle = 50 (screws @ 1.5 turns out)
- main = 118 (manual calls for 115)
- 60/3 slides
- the choke cables are loose
So, the only deviations from original are the slightly larger mains, and slightly larger atomizers.
I'm scratching my head, wondering what I should do next. Any ideas?