Won't go off choke?

Ok, in addition to the other resolved issues on the electrical forum, my bike is behaving like it will not go off choke. I start it on full and it revs to about 6000RPM, go to half choke and it revs around 4000RPM, go off choke and nothing happens. Continues to idle at 4000RPM. I looked at the mechanical linkages on the exterior of the carbs and nothing seems obviously wrong. Anyone have a thought as to what else might be wrong?

PFC FNG wrote:

Ok, in addition to the other resolved issues on the electrical forum, my bike is behaving like it will not go off choke. I start it on full and it revs to about 6000RPM, go to half choke and it revs around 4000RPM, go off choke and nothing happens. Continues to idle at 4000RPM. I looked at the mechanical linkages on the exterior of the carbs and nothing seems obviously wrong. Anyone have a thought as to what else might be wrong?

Would first assure idle thumb screw is correctly adjusted.

It might also aid a diagnosis to know what type carburetors are being discussed. If you fixed the air leak noted in one of your other threads, it will certainly help allow you to get your idle speed where it should. A leak will cause the idle to remain high/race.

The carbs are supposed to be stock. The clymer manual says they are Kehins, but they have Mikuni stamped into the side of the carb body. I found an air leak, but I am beginning to suspect I may have another and am in the process of trying to track that down. Here is a pic of the carbs. The biggest difference is the manual shows a choke lever, whereas these carbs have a plunger linkage on te side with three positions for the choke (full, half, off).

Are the air vents (92005b) supposed to be capped off or routed through a hose of some kind?



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If you are running the carbs with those Nipples next to the airscrew uncovered it will cuase these problems. If you still have the smog system on the bike. If it even has it. It connects to the 1 and 4 carb. The nipple on #2 is for the petcock operation. And the #3 is just capped off. If you dont have a smog system cap them all off except for #2 and connect that one to your petcock. Assuming its a vacumn operated one. If its not a vac. Petcock cap em all.

Thank all of you for the help. Finally got everything sorted out. My "fixed" petcock was was the source of one vacumn leak, the other was the rubber hose that ran to the petcock. I put vacumn caps on both and it idles fine now, I just have to get in the habit of turning the petcock off when I stopped. Thanks again.

Good to hear! have fun riding her!