Alright So I finally rebuilt my carbs. A lot of cleaning and trial error with assembly. On top of a stuck float, two of the four pilot jets were completely clogged. Only one was not clogged. I used the light on my iphone to shine through it. So the light didn't pass through two of them, one had a green faded glow to it and the light twinkled through the last one. I poured xylene in a cup to let them soak for an hour while I worked on other things.
I didn't use most of the o-rings I bought in bulk but they do fit. I replaced all of my float valves with OEM valves that have more sensitive valve springs. The new float valves already had o-rings. I replaced one of my main jets with a new replica. It's a little different but the jetting number is the same. In the picture, the older main jet has one of the O-rings I bought in bulk. Three of the main jets have new o-rings based on the dimensions I mentioned earlier. The o-rings I bought in bulk for the main jets fit, but are tight. I used a drop of oil on each of the three. I twisted the main jets a little and sure enough they slid in.
I'm going to try get my bike to run on a little on the rich side, but not too rich. The bike was previously set to run really rich, but that eventually led to the engine washing out. I checked my spark plugs. They were all rich with the last one covered in gas (1-4 left to right). I put my floats back on and found the floats were at 24mm, the manual calls for 21mm. I teetered with them and decided to go with 22mm for float height.
After I assembled my carbs I replaced my kickstand. I replaced it with a new one. I took off the pipes on the left side and installed it. I'm not sure if the old kick stand was actually bent or if the bolt and nut holding it in was loose, but it does seem more secure than previously. After I reinstalled the pipes, I noticed the kickstand spring was catching on the bottom of pipe 1. Something is off but I can't do anything if it has to do with the frame. My question is how can I protect my pipe from the spring? Can I put shrink wrap on the kickstand spring? How can I can prevent contact between the spring and pipe?
I can't remember when my clutch was ok. I rebuild it a couple of years back. I replaced the friction plates and clutch plates along with the springs. Barnet springs, they are bit stiffer than the original springs. Anyways at one point the clutch was just stiff. During one adjustment, I tried to give my self more play because of the the stiff clutch and the clutch stopped engaging. I tried to set as it was before and even removed all the play. The clutch lever feels like it's at 40 or 50lbs. My hand was hurting in the morning and still feels weak. I had someone rebuild my bike from his garage, he did more harm then good. He took some things apart, claimed they were broken, charged me for a whole replacement assembly and handed me the "broken" assemblies with parts missing. I'm referring to my first set of carbs. They were deemed unfixable, but I never got back all of the pieces. The second set of carbs I have now came as a complete assembly with nothing missing. Anyways I believe when he inspected my clutch housing he must have put something in backwards or omitted something. The rebuilt clutch has less than 1,000 miles on it and it's unresponsive along with being insanely stiff. I'm probably going to have to open it up to see. The oil hasn't been changed in over a year so that needs to be done anyways.
