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Help identifying the Carbs on my GS850 GG 1986 (European)

  • Thread starter Thread starter Assaf
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I can't do that work.
Not yet at least.
I've never done any serious mechanics and a carb clean and tune is too advanced for me. I don't even have a place to work.

What's the problem anyway? We can't all be mechanics. Most people give their vehicles to mechanics to repair, so that's what I'm doing too. I reached him through recommendations. Several.

I'd like to work on the bike myself sometime, but some jobs are too big, and meanwhile I want the bike on the road as soon as possible.
 
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Hi,

Most of us on the forum are skeptical when it comes to bike mechanics because we've either had a bad experience or heard so many horror stories about "professionals" who don't fix things correctly and end up doing more harm than good. I know there are good mechanics out there, but it seems they are few and far between. These are old bikes and most mechanics just don't know (or don't care) what it takes to do the job properly.

I would suggest that you print out the carb cleaning guides, air intake repair, carb sync, etc, from my website and give them to your mechanic as reference. If he doesn't clean the carbs properly your bike will never run right.


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
 
Well I finally received the parts and had the carbs cleaned.
The bike feels a whole lot better that's for sure, but other problems have now been identified.
So I'm going to be posting a few questions about compression.

Thanks for all your help folks.
 
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