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Gettin' the Carbs Off; Kawasaki ZX-11

Got it back together last night and this morning. Old bowl gaskets were kinda brittle when I removed them. Decided not to change the intake boots yet since the old ones looked/felt pretty good. A bit of vaseline on the carbs, and they went right in. Cleaned and oiled the K&N too (which was dirty).

Bike fired right up once the carbs got gas; ran and rode really well under mild acceleration. Did notice after a few miles though that it was a little different once when opening the throttle more, from lower RPMs; it didn't seem to tolerate that as well as it did before.

I opened it up harder some after that, and it still felt a bit different at first, but not too bad. I opened it up in 2nd shortly before the first ride was done, and everything seemed good, RPMs came up quickly. So whatever was going on seemed to work itself out(?). I need to ride it more to say for sure. I was thinking maybe the filter has more oil on it now than before.

I pulled the tank again when I got home from work to see if I had the filter upside down maybe (not that that would have changed the flow, but ?). Went ahead and turned the flo-commander thing 1/4 turn CCW while I was in there (leaner was the idea). Haven't ridden it again yet.

Oh, the leak's gone now too : )
 
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Thanks for the link. I saved it. Had it out again today, and it ran good (23F, lol, then about 50F coming home). Was hard into it in 1st, 2nd, and just into 3rd getting onto the highway (traffic) and it did fine. Was shifting by the sound, but wasn't at or too near redline I'm fairly certain; felt like it woulda pulled all the way to it though. That cold of air from this morning is about as dense as it's going to ever see, so will see how it does when it warms up.
 
Quick update. Bike's running great; only thing that tells me it might not be 100% correct is it doesn't like choke when (not absolutely cold) - like even after it's been sitting out all day at work. I'm talking like a day in the 60s... It fires up easily if I crack the throttle a bit with no choke in that situation (like a warm start).

Fires right up in the garage with full choke in the morning, and I have to back it off quickly to about half way to keep RPMs around 1500.
 
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