Carb Slide Question
05-20-2013, 07:46 PM
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Carb Slide Question
Hey everyone,
After a carb cleaning i started hearing my carb slides chatter at idle when the engine is at operating temp. If i give it a little gas it goes away for a minute then starts again.
Is this something i should be worried about? Does it indicate something in there is failing i.e. the diaphragms?
im going to tear into the carbs this weekend to tune them and just need to know if i should order some new slides. Thanks All
After a carb cleaning i started hearing my carb slides chatter at idle when the engine is at operating temp. If i give it a little gas it goes away for a minute then starts again.
Is this something i should be worried about? Does it indicate something in there is failing i.e. the diaphragms?
im going to tear into the carbs this weekend to tune them and just need to know if i should order some new slides. Thanks All
05-27-2013, 09:18 PM
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05-27-2013, 09:30 PM
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The slide noise sounds more like plastic on metal ( i guess cuz it is )
After following 8541HAWK's carb set up i dont get the noise anymore and it feels like a new bike. Im a little rich on the bottom end so im gona mess with them again this weekend.
Carb set up
After following 8541HAWK's carb set up i dont get the noise anymore and it feels like a new bike. Im a little rich on the bottom end so im gona mess with them again this weekend.
Carb set up
Last edited by zanoj883; 05-27-2013 at 09:53 PM. Reason: meant rich not lean
05-27-2013, 09:38 PM
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The slide noise sounds more like plastic on metal ( i guess cuz it is )
After following 8541HAWK's carb set up i dont get the noise anymore and it feels like a new bike. Im a little lean on the bottom end so im gona mess with them again this weekend.
Carb set up
After following 8541HAWK's carb set up i dont get the noise anymore and it feels like a new bike. Im a little lean on the bottom end so im gona mess with them again this weekend.
Carb set up
05-27-2013, 09:45 PM
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Carb slides
Did you pull the carburetor slides off the throttle cables on this lastcleaning / rebuild?
If so you may have accidentally mixed up the slides placing slide #1 into carburetor#2 and slide #2 into carburetor #1.
Carburetors due wear down over time from the violent amounts of air gettingpulled through them and the two carbs will wear differently and develop theirown patterns of wear to the point that one of the slides is loose in theunmatched set.
If you can live with the rattle the only hazard I can see from a situationlike this would be one of the slides sticking open when you back off thethrottle.
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05-27-2013, 09:55 PM
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Did you pull the carburetor slides off the throttle cables on this lastcleaning / rebuild?
If so you may have accidentally mixed up the slides placing slide #1 into carburetor#2 and slide #2 into carburetor #1.
Carburetors due wear down over time from the violent amounts of air gettingpulled through them and the two carbs will wear differently and develop theirown patterns of wear to the point that one of the slides is loose in theunmatched set.
If you can live with the rattle the only hazard I can see from a situationlike this would be one of the slides sticking open when you back off thethrottle.
JMO / SIRR1
If so you may have accidentally mixed up the slides placing slide #1 into carburetor#2 and slide #2 into carburetor #1.
Carburetors due wear down over time from the violent amounts of air gettingpulled through them and the two carbs will wear differently and develop theirown patterns of wear to the point that one of the slides is loose in theunmatched set.
If you can live with the rattle the only hazard I can see from a situationlike this would be one of the slides sticking open when you back off thethrottle.
JMO / SIRR1
I only do one carb at a time so not to mix things up
05-27-2013, 10:05 PM
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Did you pull the carburetor slides off the throttle cables on this lastcleaning / rebuild?
If so you may have accidentally mixed up the slides placing slide #1 into carburetor#2 and slide #2 into carburetor #1.
Carburetors due wear down over time from the violent amounts of air gettingpulled through them and the two carbs will wear differently and develop theirown patterns of wear to the point that one of the slides is loose in theunmatched set.
If you can live with the rattle the only hazard I can see from a situationlike this would be one of the slides sticking open when you back off thethrottle.
JMO / SIRR1
If so you may have accidentally mixed up the slides placing slide #1 into carburetor#2 and slide #2 into carburetor #1.
Carburetors due wear down over time from the violent amounts of air gettingpulled through them and the two carbs will wear differently and develop theirown patterns of wear to the point that one of the slides is loose in theunmatched set.
If you can live with the rattle the only hazard I can see from a situationlike this would be one of the slides sticking open when you back off thethrottle.
JMO / SIRR1
Throttle cables just go to the butterflies.
It causes no issues and happens even on new carbs and\or slides.
It is just a SH noise....
05-31-2013, 07:47 PM
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Slide Clatter
Yes, this is what I noticed too. No more slide clatter when engine is cold and kanoodling up the hill in 1st gear. Engine responce is maybe a little soft at say 6krpm in 2d when snapping the throttle open but, who cares? I don't do much of that anyway.
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