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My carbs are driving me nuts - GS850

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Reserve

Reserve

Maybe you were just on the line between normal and reserve, mine wants to be switched to reserve with about a gallon or so left.
 
86turbodsl said:
Easy for you to say, you're not the one getting stranded!
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Negative vibes! You don't have to take off on long trip- my first maiden trips were within 10 miles of my house. Just get it up to normal operating temp and run some gas thru it to convince it you're serious!
 
Bryan - no I tried it on reserve too. No change.

Tom - point taken, didn't mean to be negative. I couldn't get much beyond a 1/2 mile away from home before. I'll try and run some more gas through it next couple of days.
 
Throw an entire (15 once) can of Berryman's B-12 carb cleaner in the tank and fill with premium fuel.
Run it around the neighborhood for a good long time keeping close to home with cell phone in pocket.
She just might clean up and run great. ;)
Do you have good clean spark plugs in it gapped to .028"?

Eric
 
Yep, done the entire maintenance schedule by end of year last year. new plugs, everything.
 
Yeah on the B-12..but if your near a freeway I would jump on and go up about 20 miles or so and turn around. The 40 miles round trip will do 2 things..get the bike good and warm and run the gas thru the carbs at a faster rate and the B-12 also. gives them a better scrubbing that way..in my opinion ajyway.
 
86turbodsl said:
Yep, done the entire maintenance schedule by end of year last year. new plugs, everything.
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I see you checked the petcock flow and settings into the catch can, but I didn't see you note yet (maybe I missed it?) if you ran the bike with the petcock on PRI, maybe there's a crack in your vacuum line that keeps the petcock from opening properly, running on PRI would take that variable out.
 
Took mine to Orions this morning and told them fix it. I have never had this much trouble getting carbs right.
 
Blastr2783 said:
Took mine to Orions this morning and told them fix it. I have never had this much trouble getting carbs right.
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If you've had good luck with this "Orions" , that's great, but lots of places have no interest in these old bikes, or if they do, you can get unlucky and pay them to compound problems.
 
tom203 said:
If you've had good luck with this "Orions" , that's great, but lots of places have no interest in these old bikes, or if they do, you can get unlucky and pay them to compound problems.
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Their good, used em for years. They specialize in older bikes.
 
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