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Back on the highway and running smooth !!!!!!!
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Still recovering,some days are better than others.
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Meaning the carb's were draining via the down tubes probably due to as Plummen wrote "check the floats to see if they were sticking or needed adjusting".
In raising them, they don't drain, so where is all the excess gas going?
Seems to me this only hides the problem and does not repair what is occurring.
Ok, I'm baffled... :S
BTW, love your bike, very clean...
OMR
1976 KZ900-A4
MTC 1075cc.
Camshafts: Kawi GPZ-1100 .375 lift
Head: P&P via Larry Cavanaugh
ZX636 suspension
MIKUNI, RS-34'S...
Kerker 4-1, 1.5" comp baffle.
Dyna-S E.I.
Earls 10 row Oil Cooler
Acewell 2802 Series Speedo/Tach
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Phoenix, Az
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I'm up and running on the highway like a champ!!!!!! I re-routed the 2 float bowl vent tubes that were ran down to the ground. I ran them up and over the airbox. Presto!! She runs just awesome. The saga is over, now I can sleep at night. I'm very happy now that I can actually ride my old bike.
Is it possible that having them going down under the bike was creating a suction like a road draft tube on an old car?
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I'm up and running on the highway like a champ!!!!!! I re-routed the 2 float bowl vent tubes that were ran down to the ground. I ran them up and over the airbox. Presto!! She runs just awesome. The saga is over, now I can sleep at night. I'm very happy now that I can actually ride my old bike.
2 float bowl vent tubes -- perhaps were kinked or somehow blocked when previously routed over the swingarm and down underneath the bike. When re-routed up and over the airbox, the tubes likely cleared and began venting the floatbowls as designed.
These would be the two tubes that afford venting to each of the four floatbowls. From the factory, some models such as KZ900 have the two float vent tubes routed to a clip atop the airbox cover, and the four floatbowl overflow tubes routed over the swingarm and underneath the bike.
Some owners for various reasons elect to route the two vent tubes underneath the bike instead of up over the airbox or otherwise to underneath the seat.
When the two vent tubes are clear and unkinked, either routing should serve to vent the floatbowls.
Good Luck!
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