Carb issues solved

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I have this gl1200 that was resureected early this year after sitting outside for 3 years. I must have overlooked the carbs when I first cleaned them. I also think the eafoam doses loosened lots of vuilt up crud that ended up filtering in the carb.

I decided to pull the carbs last weekend and have a thourough cleaning . If this would have failed I would have opted for a full rebuld,

Cleaned all ports and blocked jets, se t the floats, replaced all vacuum and fuel lines , reset the pilots to factory setting and synched the carbs.



Thanks to this wonderfull site for the years of knowledge I have gained. The operation was a full success.

I cant believe the dramatic change. Just a touch of the starter button and shes purring, no more eratic idle. Due to the quick throttle response I no longer have to fear comming into slow turns.

One thing I have to get used to is sghifting again. I taught myself shifting with the rpms a bit high. Now the rpms go to idel immediatly after releasing the throttle. So every shift winds me down before surging back up to road speed.

Thanks all.