Can I use carbs from an early gs750 in a 79 gs850?

[Danb4563]

Ok guys. Quick question. I recently picked up a 1979 gs850. The bike came partially disassembled, but it looked to be mostly complete. I got it from a buddy who got it in a deal as a parts bike. I have a pretty healthy stock of gs750 parts so i figured I could cobble it together enough to get her going, After all, it's a gs. So fast forward a week and I've got the bike figured out. All that was missing was the front fender, exhaust, starter relay, mirrors, choke cable and a few other small bits.

Here is my question. The 79 gs850 has what looks to be a set of vm26 mikunis on it, much like the early 750s. They arent quite the same. The 850 came with the cable operated choke, and the 750 has the lever. I don't have the choke cable and I'm not really wild about cable operated chokes anyway. My question is, are there any internal differences to the carb bodies at all? Can I swap in a set of carbs from a 750 to solve my choke issue or even just swap the #1 carb that has the choke lever on to the bank of 850 carbs and change the linkage? 20171108_155533.jpg

[Guest]

Looks like the only difference in internals is the 850 went up one size on the main jet to 102.5 and increased the float height from 23 to 24. Take a look at the two specs closely there might be some other differences but it should work.

http://gsarchive.bwringer.com/bikecliff/images/carbspec_float_height.html

[Danb4563]

Sweet. Thanks for the help.