carb re-jetting: frustration plantation

Posted by Lizzie on July 16th, 2007

Ah yes, my motorcycle is still not up and running. Well, that’s not true. It runs (as in, I can get it started and it idles) but the minute I try to put it in gear it rides rough, bogs down, shoots out black smoke and then dies. That leads me to believe that it’s running too rich (getting too much gas).

Reading the VolusiaRiders board has been very helpful with advice and keeping me sane. I think I lost a little, bitty O-ring that everyone told me not to lose. That’s the only thing I can think of since we’ve ripped the bike apart fifty times to get at the carburetor it probably fell out at some point. That has to be it. So, today I ordered not one but two. They’ll be in on Thursday.

If all goes well I’ll be out riding this weekend, dammit.

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