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Runs well with Seafoam but awful without

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Here's the situation:

My gs1100 runs pretty good with seaform. However, once I finished the Seafoam my bike backfires and has poor power without choke. With choke on, its runs OK.

What does this mean??

Need to clean the carbs? Adjust idle screw? Tinker with exhaust?


Bike is stock. I just got it off craigslist.
 
Clean and rebuild the carbs

Seal all airbox and intake boot leaks

Replace air filter.

Adjust valves

All of this MUST be done. Or it will continue to run like crap.
Welcome to the world of 30 year old mistreated bike ownership.
 
I'd go though the carbs and replace all the O-rings. The bike is 30 years old and maintenance is never a waste.

EDIT: Josh posted while I was typing.:)
 
I saw the previous two posts and posted again, just to reinforce what they were saying ...
CLEAN THE CARBS which includes new o-rings from cycleorings.com
ADJUST THE VALVES
CLEAN THE ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS

You got a lot of that advise in the thread that you started almost two weeks ago.

The advise won't change, no matter how many times you ask it.
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Steve said:
I saw the previous two posts and posted again, just to reinforce what they were saying ...
CLEAN THE CARBS which includes new o-rings from cycleorings.com


ADJUST THE VALVES
CLEAN THE ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS

You got a lot of that advice in the thread that you started almost two weeks ago.

The advice won't change, no matter how many times you ask it.
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Using Seafoam works wonders, but it IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR CLEANING THE CARBS PROPERLY.

Yep , while most of us don't mind answering the same question again and again... It gets a little annoying when its the same person re asking a question worded differently, that has been answered for them. If you really are clueless, the best way to get that bike running well might be to sell it.
 
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