{"id":71611,"date":"2012-03-23T21:02:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T12:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=71611"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:43:31","slug":"gsxr1100m-flat-rate-motorcycle-inspection-carb-maintenance-fork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20120323\/everyday-events\/gsxr1100m-flat-rate-motorcycle-inspection-carb-maintenance-fork","title":{"rendered":"GSX-R1100M Flat-Rate Motorcycle Inspection \/ Carburetor Maintenance \/ Fork and Such"},"content":{"rendered":"

Various issues came up and it became non-running, so it came in on a flatbed.
 
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This owner has had it since it was new\u2014quite the dedicated rider. It’s sparkling clean.
 
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Moving on to the carburetor.
 
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The butterfly valve is opening too far. Idle is running high.
 
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I hate to point it out, but the #4 diaphragm is installed backwards.
 
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There are signs of past clogging. The PJ was also slightly clogged.
 
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Just to be safe, we’re checking the float level and
 
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the actual fuel level.
 
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We lubricated the throttle and gained 2 horsepower.
 
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The oil is Newtech Bamboo
\nCirculating the oil and inspecting the coil.
\nWe cranked it and checked the spark as requested\u2014it does seem a bit weak somehow…
\nI’ll take a closer look tomorrow \u2605
\nWe also replaced the sensor and drain.
 
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The engine fired right up on all four cylinders
\nIt’s running terribly out of time.
 
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Perfect \u2605
\nIt’s putting out some white smoke, but should that be okay…?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Various issues came up and it became non-running, so it came in on a flatbed.    This owner has had it since it was new\u2014quite the dedicated rider. It’s sparkling clean.    Moving on to the carburetor.    The butterfly valve is opening too far. Idle is running high.    I hate to point it out, but the #4 diaphragm is installed backwards.    There are signs of past clogging. The PJ was also slightly clogged.    Just to be safe, we’re checking the float level and    the actual fuel level.    We lubricated the throttle and gained 2 horsepower.    The oil is Newtech Bamboo Circulating the oil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[91,55],"class_list":["post-71611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-gv73a","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}