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This GL1100 Std is only showing less than 8K on the speedo, but it sat idle form '88 'til now. Went completely through the fuel system from the tank, what I couldn't clean up, I replaced with new. Replaced old timing belts and after I cranked her, she was unable to idle even after reaching temp. When I hooked the carb sync gauges, I saw that I only have 1" of vacuum on any of the carbs and I tried looking for a gross leak by spraying the carbs from the airbox to the heads with WD40 at every joint including the vacuum chamber seal, hoping that the vacuum leak would reveal itself by causing the engine to increase rpm's when it picked up the WD40. No luck! I have minimum 135 psi compression on all four cylinders and the engine sounds good even though it has sluggish revs and will only idle at 1,000 rpm's when the throttle is held in place by the cruise clamp on the throttle. It seems to idle smooth enough then, but I can't get the idle screw adjustment to screw in far enough to hold the 1K idle. Can this be a valve seating problem? It seems to be getting better after I opened the pilot screws on #1&3, but you can clearly smell that they are rich at about 2 1/2 turns open. Any suggestions? :gunhead:
Thanks,
Don
This GL1100 Std is only showing less than 8K on the speedo, but it sat idle form '88 'til now. Went completely through the fuel system from the tank, what I couldn't clean up, I replaced with new. Replaced old timing belts and after I cranked her, she was unable to idle even after reaching temp. When I hooked the carb sync gauges, I saw that I only have 1" of vacuum on any of the carbs and I tried looking for a gross leak by spraying the carbs from the airbox to the heads with WD40 at every joint including the vacuum chamber seal, hoping that the vacuum leak would reveal itself by causing the engine to increase rpm's when it picked up the WD40. No luck! I have minimum 135 psi compression on all four cylinders and the engine sounds good even though it has sluggish revs and will only idle at 1,000 rpm's when the throttle is held in place by the cruise clamp on the throttle. It seems to idle smooth enough then, but I can't get the idle screw adjustment to screw in far enough to hold the 1K idle. Can this be a valve seating problem? It seems to be getting better after I opened the pilot screws on #1&3, but you can clearly smell that they are rich at about 2 1/2 turns open. Any suggestions? :gunhead:
Thanks,
Don