welcome to CBRF! i love f3's, they're great bikes. enjoy!

 

thanks guys...I gave her a spit polish.

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pilot jets clogged...pulled carbs and cleaned them out. Reassembly in progress.

 

Success! Had difficulty getting it primed though. Fuel pump would only click when engine fires. I had to hook tank straight to carbs and get it running that way and get some gas in there. Then went through fuel pump and it would kinda want to run and everytime it fired the fuel pump would actually "click", then it just took off from there. Details coming later.

 

Welcome to the forum

 

The whole story is I was riding it home last week and I pull the clutch in preparing to stop and it just quit running all of a sudden like it was out of gas. Tried reserve but nothing. Get it home next day by truck and discover it runs on full choke. Did some research found out about pilot jets.

That was it though runs perfect like it did before. Shop wanted $60 for each carb plus parts. I also know a lot more about my bike.

For the record I just pulled the carbs and dropped the bowls and cleaned the pilot jets. Inside the bowls looked clean I just dont understand how they clogged in the first place.

Guess I will run some seabond through her on the regular to prevent from happening again.

Anything like this happen to you guys?

 

Update: My fuel issue was the fuel pump. I just bought a new set of contacts and put on old pump and she runs perfect. Replaced windscreen and about to put new tires on.