Saturday, September 28, 2013
The Bike runs right again!
So after a week of driving around with inner tube on my air filters, I received my new jets for my carburetor. Switching them out only took about 20 minutes so that is cool. Taking the carburetor off this bike is really easy. I have a 1980 Yamaha xj 650 maxim. The main jets in this bike are 110's and the pilot jets are 40's. I went up to 116's and 41's. That made all the difference. The bike can be driven like normal again! It seems faster and able to get up to speed faster but I cant really tell because I remember driving around a messed up bike for a week and don't remember a regular bike. With the new pod filters on there I actually have an air filter though. When we broke apart the stock air box last Saturday we found no filter in my bike so that is good. I don't have any pictures of the jet change because you cant tell a difference from the outside but trust me, there is a huge difference. I did pretty good guessing which jets to buy the first time around I would say. I've never done this stuff before so I surprised my self. When I put the carburetor back on the bike and just drove around on it it seemed like it needed some tuning and that worried me because its just one more thing but I think the weirdness was due to the fact that the carburetors weren't full of fuel yet. Now I am looking at what kind of handlebars I want to get to replace the antlers I have on there now. I'm looking at some clip-ons but I worry about their strength and If i'm too big for them. I don't want to die because I was going down the freeway and my handlebar broke off. Still need to figure out the seat situation and get real blinkers plus a bunch of other eBay stuff but all the extra parts aren't too much so its cool.
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