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[GS Rider]

If I wanted to adjust my carbs,with that large brass screw, can I do it or should I leave alone??.

If I can do it,

how do I know they are balanced?????


My bike is a 1150 adventure twin spark.

 

[pablo666]

Carbs????

 

[Tarka]

or should I leave alone??..

That bit.




Until you know what you`re looking at.

 

[Flipfly]

You need a carb balancer kit and the do a search on throttle body balance.

It's fairly easy but you will more than likely make it worse before you suss it out.

Involves setting the cable right also.

There is a godd video thread here http://www.bmwmc.net/

 

[Wanderer]

http://www.advrider.com/Wisdom/TBS4Dv1.0.pdf

 

[Bronco Billy]

If I wanted to adjust my carbs,with that large brass screw, can I do it or should I leave alone??.
If I can do it,how do I know they are balanced?????
My bike is a 1150 adventure twin spark.

To balance the Throttle bodys you can make a "Manometer" or buy a "Twinmax" or "Carbtune". You could do it if you have the common sense and basic mechanical aptitude. There is everything you need to know on this site by searching. If you can wade through this Septics bullcack it tells you how its done.
http://advwisdom.hogranch.com/Wisdom/TBS4Dv1.0.pdf
TBS4Dv1.0.pdf (application/pdf Object)

It is best though to set the rocker shaft end float and do the valve adjustment first before balancing. Steptoes sticky in the font of all wisdom tells you how this is done,
http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81408
Agjusting rocker end float, and valve clearances - ::. UKGS'er.com .::

Go on and do it if you feel confident enough mate ..... the worst you can do is completely knacker your bike ............ ............

 

[GS Rider]

That bit.




Until you know what you`re looking at.

I think your right

 

[Marks adventure]

Bill FFS dont touch it....

 

[johnl]

research it and do it, its easy. everyone has learn at some point.

don't be put off with people telling you to drop the spanner, step away from the machine and RTFM!!!!! aaarrggghhh how unhelpful!!!

 

[Tarka]

don't be put off with people telling you to drop the spanner, step away from the machine and RTFM!!!!! aaarrggghhh how unhelpful!!!

Would you rather he * didn`t * RTFM and then fecked his bike up through ignorance ??

Rather like more than one or two on this site have done ??

research it

Well feck me if that ain`t another way of saying RTFM

 

[Fanum]

If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is

As a matter of interest Tarquin me old fruit, how did you start off in your fettling career??

Didn't you start by asking silly questions and trying things out, dealing with the consequences and learning from your experiences or were you born with a manual up your ring spanner


Have to say though, given the way this question was phrased.......Marks adventure may well have a point for the time being

 

[Tarka]

As a matter of interest Tarquin me old fruit, how did you start off in your fettling career??

Didn't you start by asking silly questions and trying things out, dealing with the consequences and learning from your experiences or were you born with a manual up your ring spanner

Seeing as you ask..when I had my first bike,a Suzuki TS50ER when I was aged 16,I sat down with a brew and read through the Owner`s Manual to find out about the bike.

I also bought some bike maintenance books so I could learn about different engine configurations and what`s inside them and how they worked.

Buying a Haynes Manual for each successive bike and reading the fecking thing lead to finding out what needed to be done..and what tools were required.

It`s not a case of being "born with a manual up your ring spanner" (as well you know)...merely a case of doing what too many folk patently can`t be arsed doing...which is looking at very easily available information to acquire knowledge before fecking about with something I may not have known much about previously.

I suspect that alcoholic imbibement has lead to your post,so wait until you`re sober before reading my reply and gaining some insight.

Then perhaps try to understand the quality of my suggestion in my initial post when someone is contemplating doing service maintenance on a bike that they aren`t even aware of being fuel injected rather than having carburettors.

 

[Rob Farmer]

The first thing I did was pull a cylinder head off a Suzuki B120 to decoke it and promptly fitted it the wrong way round...I haven't looked back since

 

[TheWarlock]

First major (to me) job I did on my CX500 C was to change the fork oil. Felt pretty confident having done a number of services.
Put bike on centre stand.
Undid fork drain plug, handy little plug on side of fork slider. Excellent.
Oil slowly trickled out. Removing the top fork cap increased the oil flow.
Brilliant, thought I and I'll leave that off for the purpose of re-filling.
Might as well start the other leg draining at the same time.
You can see where this is going can't you?
Not wishing to make the same obvious (to me) mistake I'll remove the top fork cap first.
As I looked at the bike lying on its side having fallen off the centre stand, and wondered where the fork springs and top cap had landed, I thought to myself, there might be more to this than meets the eye.

 

[oblertone]

Twinmax available ...

... in Essex if you'd like to try it for yourself. I can't be arsed and take it to St Eptoe for service

 

[cookie]

I had my first bike,a Suzuki TS50ER when I was aged 16

that's very nearly an anagram of TOSSER. a portent if ever there was one

 

[Keith Chapman]

First major (to me) job I did on my CX500 C was to change the fork oil. Felt pretty confident having done a number of services.
Put bike on centre stand.
Undid fork drain plug, handy little plug on side of fork slider. Excellent.
Oil slowly trickled out. Removing the top fork cap increased the oil flow.
Brilliant, thought I and I'll leave that off for the purpose of re-filling.
Might as well start the other leg draining at the same time.
You can see where this is going can't you?
Not wishing to make the same obvious (to me) mistake I'll remove the top fork cap first.
As I looked at the bike lying on its side having fallen off the centre stand, and wondered where the fork springs and top cap had landed, I thought to myself, there might be more to this than meets the eye.

I only got as far as undoing the drain screws on my RD250 then rocked the bike of the centre stand. That emptied the forks of oil PDQ. Two jets of oil across the garage