In reading your original post, you refer to adjusting the idle stop screw and jet needle. You need to be adjusting the slide nuts at the top of the carbs or cable adjusts if you have very early set of carbs with 4 cables attaching to the carbs. Also, you need to put the snubber valves in line with each vacuum line and locate it near the carb, not near the gage.
-P.
yes I was adjusting the slide nuts which makes the needle go up or down right? I was adjusting about quarter turn at a time. If I recall if I did a full half turn the bike would die, so I turned the other way and the bike was revving high. So I just put it back to the original position and adjusted the throttle stop screw which didn't do much with the vacuum
Emgo suggest near the gauge. Heres some instructions.
http://img.jpcycles.com/staticwebfiles/instructions/pdf/zz40036.pdf
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Jim
I really don't see why people ask for advice if their not going to take the advice given.
Thanks! I'll print these out
A quarter turn is a LOT! Do it gradually and slowly. You want to have about ~2-3 threads showing on the adjusting rods above the smaller lock nut. This should give you room to work with. You want to be sure all your carb to intake pipe boots are tight and not leaking air.
-P.
Alright I'll try this next time. Just a little confusing what exactly needs to be done when with all the different info/videos out there.
From what I gathered.
Adjust the main idle screw so the the bike idles at around 1,500 (hackaweek link)
Then play with the 4 top needle nuts until all 4 carbs are within range of each other while blimping the throttle between each one?
After set the idle back to original 800-1,000 idle and play with the individual throttle stop screws to get them within range of each other at idle?
Since there is no main carb to sync to and 1 appears to be the highest, try to sync 2,3,4 to 1? (all while blimping throttle between, or should I shut off the engine then blimp throttle as in the video linked earlier?)
