1981 KZ1000LTD misfiring?

hate to tell you this little brother but i think you may be looking at pulling the carbs off again and breaking down and getting some carb cleaner in a can. your miss fire is coming from lean pilot circuits the rusty looking fuel that you dumped out of it was definitly most of your problem. the noise your hearing is mostly caused by your carbs being out of sync. once you cure your pilot issuses and do a proper carb sync most if not all those noises will go away.other than that it seems like you got your self a really nice ride. don't do anything crazy and be safe. not many guy's your age would have the attention span or the stones to be attempting what your doing keep up the good work. remember we are here for you.

1981jmotor wrote:

I am having to remember back about 2.5 yrs on this, but I think the following is a description of the flywheel puller.

The flywheel has some threads in its central hole. The puller is like 2 tubes, one threaded inside the other. The outer tube has threads on the end that thread into the flywheel. The inner tube is turned, pressing against the end of the crankshaft, and drawing the outer tube, and flywheel with it.

my 2 cents. I am no guru, but I do not see how the top triple tree nut could work as a substitute for this puller. Maybe they changed the design from the earlier bikes.
No offense or argument intended.:woohoo:

Once again this works for the early motors not sure about the J motor.

The large Bolt on the triple tree will thread into the rotor. The manual says to drop a large ball bearing into the hole and will sit on the crank snout as the screw threads in it bottoms out on the bearing and pulls the rotor.

This is a factory design and is mentioned in one of my manuals. It works like a charm. Sounds to easy I know but those Japs can be pretty smart engineers sometimes.

Cspra, thankyou very much for this info. I am still learning myself.
Timothy, I must respectfully disagree with what Timebomb posted below about "the noise you are hearing is most likely the carbs being out of sync". I base this on the fact that I heard your bike in the video making the same noise mine did when it had the loose 'starter clutch to rotor' bolts. I would it bet it mainly does it at idle, and it may sound funny when it is cranking. I do not think that a rattle from the shifter side of the bike would be caused by carb sync issues.
Also, forget what I wrote earlier about having to remove the footpeg, and the shifter. That is for pulling the cover for the final drive sprocket.

ok, i decided that i will sync the carbs because there is a place that will do if right down the street from where i live. I will also pull off that cover and tighten up them bolts. I have a flywheel puller too so i should be ok.

Thanks guys,
KT