The Koolaid Project

thanks for all of the info. I'll post up my success or failure

 

good luck, while your at it, get an ohmmeter and unscrew your splark plug lead resistors and measure them for excessive resistance. I had a bad one and it felt like a lean miss at full throttle.

 

WAAAAALLLLLAAAAHHHH!!!!! Today I decided to just say f*** it and tear out the stock air box. I got that out, removed the carbs, and took them back apart. Guess what I found??? After just sitting a month or two after a THOROUGH cleaning the emulsion tubes were REALLy gummed up with some green goo shite and carb 4's float was completely stuck. The pivot was a bit rusty adn it wasn't moving freely at all. They are soaking right now. The plan is to clean them and paint the carb tops tonight durning the football game. Then first thing tomorrow I'll slap them back together with some bigger jets from a kit I got awhile back to compensate for the pods I'll be installing now. I got those months ago as well. Hopefully i'll have it ready for a test ride by lunchtime tomorrow.

I ALMOST got the airbox out clean without incident JUST as I was popping it clear to get it out the f'er cracked. the damage isn't bad and can easily be fixed, so if anyone wants a cheap stock airbox hit me up and make me an offer. I can send pics.

Also, now that the air tube or whatever isn't going to the air box what do I do with that hole in the motor? Where can I get a filter for that or do I just plug it, run a tube to nowhere.....what???

at least I've taken a leap in the right direction. I'm SO f'n glad that they ended up being all gummed up after all. Saves the headache of tracking the problem down any further. WWWOOOOOHHHHOOOOO!!!!! what a good night. I got a guy making me some brackets for my other bike and found a local guy to tig weld them for me, so I can install the subframe.

Oh, and I ordered my 50" tv for the man cave. It was a MUST now that I got direct tv and Sunday ticket. No more kids running around while I'm trying to watch football and now I can watch more than 2 Eagle's games a year. It's good to be me today

 

except now I'm broke and there are a few other parts I'm looking at for the XJ

 

I am about to pull the trigger on a tv as well, but fear being broke.lol. That hole you speak of that had a hose to the airbox, you can find a dandy little jem of a filter at advanced auto that will pop right on there for 10 bucks and they even come in different colors.

 

best buy has a deal going on for a 48 inch 1080p for like 450 or 500 i think, and i pretty sure its best buy

 

what is this "Dandy" little filter called or what do I ask for? I'm going to O'riley's tomorrow and can swing by Advanced or Auto Zone as well if they don't have it.

If you are seriously looking at TV's and not sure where to get it I got mine from Amazon Warehouse for QUITE a bit less than I could find it anywhere else. warehousedeals.com I got the Samsung 50" plasma and it came out to around $800 shipped. Not too shabby since I paid more for my Samsung 43" plasma that is in my living room about 4 years ago that was refurbished. I love Samsung. I had it narrowed down to the 50" plasma from there or the Samsung 52" LCD from a best buy affiliate that I can't think of right now for about $20 more. I went with plasma, because I read that it is better for fast paced shite like sports and that is the main reason I got the TV, so .... no brainer. Shipping isn't the fastest though... going to be here until the 18th, so I won't have it for this upcoming weekend when I have off. I work the following weekend, so I won't get to test it out on a Sunday until the following week, which isn't until the 31st. Oh well.... at least I got it

 

48" ??? Are you sure that wasn't for a 40-42" I saw that. I didn't really want anything less than a 50" soley for the reason of watching the game tracket channel or whatever it's called on direct tv that shows you 8 games at once. I live on that channel during the 1 o'clock games, then switch to the red zone channel for the 4pm games, so I can following everything..... UNLESS the Eagles are playing. When they are on I just watch them and only switch to the other channels when it's a commercial.

OK, Done watching Dexter with the wife, so it's off to the garage to pick up the game in progress and work on the carbs. I need to decide what color to go with for the carb caps. It's either going to be silver or metallic red. Not sure yet..... any votes on that? I'm not sold on what I'm doing with the pint on the tank and fender yet either. It was going to be bedliner with some metallic red accents, but then I changed my mind to either silver or raw metal just clear coated. advice....ideas?

 

If there was rust in the carbs, and the gas turned to gum there was probably water in the gas. Gas mixed with water can turn into a gelatinos goo and stop everything up. Be carefull of chemicals yu may be putting in the tank, like ethonal, mek or acetone. THey'll eat up all the rubber parts, like the float valves and the valve under the tank (we get censored for saying percock) that turns on prime, run and reserve. It comes off though. You can rinse the non rubberized parts in gummout and let them all air dry good, before putting it all back together.
Remember if you are deleting the airbox make sure you put a breather filter in the place where the hose comes from the crankcase, like street brawler suggested. It routed to the airbox so the crankcase could only breathe filtered air, The engine will wear out quickly with one. Auto Zone, O'Reilys' Pep Boys etc.
I am going to send you a pm, you may have a part I need. good luck!

 

Thanks for the info padre. I'll be looking for the pm. I'm SUPPOSED to be in the garage right now watching the game and cleaning up the carbs that are soaking, but I'm on here and sitting with the wife while she watches f'n "Sister Wives" before going to bed. So gay....

I'll clean up everything good, let it all dry out real good, put a filter on the crankcase breather, and all that jazz...

 

oh, and no worries about the "pet bird" valve yet. I'm still running on the aux tank and was holding off hooking up the actual tank until I got everything else ironed out. I redid the SECA tank and lined it with POR-15, but have since decided to go with the MAXIM 750 tank, so that still needs stripped and lined. I already got the POR-15 kit for it, but have been putting off doing it. Once I get this bad larry idling good it will light a fire under me to finish up the tank.

 

Bad Larry? Ok whatever. I also got tired of cleaning out my carbs of sand and sediment so I spliced a VW type one fuel filter (68 bug to be exact,) into my fuel line between the tank and the carbs. The inlet and outlet are tapered, (VW didn't use hose clamps on it) and fit just like it is supposed to be there between the #1 carb hat and the bottom of the tank.

 

you don't like "bad larry"? Would you prefer bad mamma-jamma?

 

MoFo, bad MoFo.

 

Alright... I did a quick cleaning on the carbs, but when I attempted to use the jets that I got from 6 Sigma off of ebay they don't queite seem to fit. I didn't want to force them, so I just put the old ones back in. It's like the threads are just slightly off. That will have to do for now, but it will need to be readressed down the line.

I am waiting for the carb tops to dry overnight and then first thing in the morning I'll slap the tops back on and get them installed on the bike and see if it fires up (fingers crossed).

 

watch your plugs close. With pods and exhaust mods you will be lean. Possibly damaging stuff lean. Maybe ok at idle but riding will be lean. You can shim the needles with 4mm washers until you find jets. It may take both jets and shims.

Len has the jets of course.

 

Ok, I'll toss two shims in for now. I have 120 and 40's in right now. Is that stock?

I don't know what the other jets are called, but they are 220 and 80. I forget which goes where. I THOUGHT I knew last night, but I think I turned the carbs around making left right and right left, so then I confused myself. If was 3am and I was too tired to remember I tried looking it up then, but passed out.

 

Those jets seem incredibly large, but what do I know. The litle filter is an apc brand comes in a plsatic package, looks like a little pod filter. It is a dandy jem indeed. I am looking into a 65" DLP mitsubishi tv I think I might just get it.

 

how much for the 65" if you don't mind me asking?

Still can't find the info on the othter jets and I don't want to finish putting them back together and attempt to fire her up until I do... poop

If the 120/40's seem large then that's good for me with the pods, right? The jet kit I got from 6 Sigma came with 130, 132.5, and 135's. I never even opened the package until last night. I've had them for months. I thought they jipped me, because there were only 2 jets of each size. Then I read the directions and it says to put bigger jets in the outer carbs. So, if you go with 130's on the outside you put 132.5's on the inner carbs. If you're still lean then bump up to 132.5's on the outside and 135's on the inners. Does anyone else have their bike jetted like that? My gsxr with K&N pods just has the same jets across the board.

 

streetbrawler if there's a bigscreenstore near you check them out. They had the mitsu's for $2k and a free 42" LCD or plasma I forget.

Koolaid with jets that size you may not need to rejet! You may be rich. I went from a 110 to a 114 main fuel jet and have a stock pilot jet and 1 shim. The upside to shims is you don't have to remove the carbs to install.

On the bottom the big jet (120 in your case) goes in the center where the needle comes down.

On the top the small jet goes above the big fuel jet the big jet goes above the small pilot jet. The Haynes manual has them backward.