NEED HELP!!!!!!!!!!!! Carbs dont fit

I bought a set of carbs for my 85 XJ700. I bought them from a salvage company in Flordia, they dont seem to fit. Someone has replaced the tops with chrome ones. I know I need Hitachi Carbs but there are no identifying marks I can see. Can someone help? maybe some measurements I can do? thanks ANYTHING will help.

Andrew

 

you didnt' perhaps get a set of mikuni carbs that go on the 85 xj700X did you? mine have chrome hats on them stock. the air heads got hitachi's and the liquid cooled models got mikuni's in 85'-86'. They should say right on the sides of the carbs what make they are. Do you have your original set to compare them to or are you rebuilding a basket case in which you didn't have any at all?

 

The bike didnt come with carbs. The previous owner didnt have carbs... I will go look. This is soooooo frustrating!

 

Hey dude
What do the tops look like? My 83 750 has chrome tops and I'm sure they are stock. Did you remove the rubber grommets thet are attached to your air filter box? It's a giant pain in the back tire to bolt on the carbs with those rubber demons in place. Hitachi carbs ignition systems were used by yamaha and honda through the eighties so there should be a ton of them around. Your right there no identifying marks on them, just the hitachi logo.

 

I didnt find any name. only thing I found was a marking symbol. small circle with a design in it... Any Ideas?

 

Strider---

there are no boots on the bike now. what am i looking for?

 

The circular design is the Hitachi symbol. Based on that, as long as they shipped the right size, these should be the right carbs. There were different millimeter designations.

Pictures would really help.

 

True story. Nothing is better than a couple of good pics on this site.

 

I will get pictures asap. Please check tomarrow.

 

Mikuni's for the X will look like this. This is a side view of the #1 carb.

 

Thanks. Mine dose not look like that. But I still need to get pics uploaded. When I put my boots on they dont line up with the carbs. soo Im at a loss. I was hopeing someone with my same carbs could measure the spacing of the carbs so I could compair

 

Nice looking carbs Joe, what did you do to clean them so nice? glass bead or soda blast?

 

Ah.... (look side to side)....
(whisper) I can't take credit. I bought them that way.

 

Do you have the boots in the right postiton? Boots 1 and 4 have a little bend to them that lines them up with the carbs. It should kind of be like this:

1 2 3 4
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Its worth a check anyway

 

Joe! That is 1 fine lookin' carb!