Hello everyone, I have another mystery. I swapped out my fuel hoses, put in a new fuel filter, added a fender eliminator, and a new windscreen. I also tried to adjust my choke but I was unsure on how to do that. So when i got it all pieced back together the Idle was wild. It started right up at 3500rpms then would dwindle down to 2500 rpms then to 1000rpms and then it would die. Then when i would try to restart it I would have to give it tons of gas and the same thing would happen again. I rode it around, and it rides fairly smooth, but when i finally got back home from going around the block it died after pulling in the clutch. My choke is acting odd as well, when i turn it on, it kills
the bike. I thought the choke was supposed to enrich the fuel thus making the rpms higher along w the idle. I messed up somewhere.
Also when I was doing all of this work i pulled all of the air filter prefilter pieces off and used a bike pump to blow air through them to make sure they were clear. Air passed through but very well could still be gunked up.

Thank you everyone for you help in advance, ive been having a hell of a time. All I want to do is get out and ride

 

when was your last full carb cleaning?

 

Not sure. hasnt been done since ive gotten the bike.

 

it's possible that some gunk may have came off the old fuel lines and clogged up the carbs.

But your idle should be set to 1200 for for normal type, and 1500 for cali type bike. what did you set yours too? mine is a 49 state type and I still have to set mine to around 1400 to idle correct..

set it once, ride about 10 mins and set it again.

Try this

 

hmmm. Do i need to pull the carbs out to do this? I tried adjusting it and it stayed around the same area around 3500 rpm. Very odd. And when i turned on the choke it died. I had the carbs exposed to the air for a couple days. Maybe something got into it

 

you should have an adjustment screw behind the left rear fairing, it is right above where the fuel pump is. turn left to raise idle, right to lower idle... you may have also hit it when changing fuel lines

 

my adjustment screw comes out and can be adjusted from the outside, i tried adjusting that and there was no change. anything else?

 

pm'd you

 

it was a pinched gas line. Its running again problem free. sounds better than ever as well. Choke isnt working at all. But im sure a change to my cable would be best

 

that's awesome, glad to hear you are going again