{"id":76740,"date":"2010-07-18T11:58:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T02:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=76740"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:42:06","slug":"bandit-1200-carburetor-cleaning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20100718\/everyday-events\/bandit-1200-carburetor-cleaning-2","title":{"rendered":"Bandit 1200 Carburetor Cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_61507597_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_61507597_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_61507597_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_61507597_3.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>So here we have a Bandit with 96,000 kilometers on it already.<br \/>\nA bike that&#8217;s been ridden this much is really educational.<br \/>\nI really love the GSF1200&#8217;s BST36 carburetor,<br \/>\nand as the miles add up, you can see the slide valve, needle, and bore visibly wearing down,<br \/>\nbut modern carburetors don&#8217;t wear as much.<br \/>\nThe needle isn&#8217;t even dull,<br \/>\nand the slide valve is worn, sure, but at this mileage it&#8217;s only worn this much\u2014pretty impressive.<br \/>\nSo we checked the fuel level in all four carbs,<br \/>\nbalanced them,<br \/>\nswapped the muffler,<br \/>\nand threw in some other stuff to test,<br \/>\nand it&#8217;s running really smooth now \u266a<br \/>\nAll set!<br \/>\n674393_61507597_0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;So here we have a Bandit with 96,000 kilometers on it already. A bike that&#8217;s been ridden this much is really educational. I really love the GSF1200&#8217;s BST36 carburetor, and as the miles add up, you can see the slide valve, needle, and bore visibly wearing down, but modern carburetors don&#8217;t wear as much. The needle isn&#8217;t even dull, and the slide valve is worn, sure, but at this mileage it&#8217;s only worn this much\u2014pretty impressive. So we checked the fuel level in all four carbs, balanced them, swapped the muffler, and threw in some other stuff to test, and it&#8217;s running really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[1922,55],"class_list":["post-76740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-bandit","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76740","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=76740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}