We got that bike I posted about in by Bypass thread; we got a key made too. It wouldn't start due to a dead battery, so after charging it, still nothing. I decided to pull the carbs. They weren't terribly dirty but the pilot jets were clogged. I soaked the carbs overnight, blew them out again, flossed the pilot jets and reassembled.

It will now start and idle as long as the choke is on, but it will die without choke and it'll die if you try to give it any gas. I know the slides are in right and are function properly.

Here's my question... note this parts diagram of the carb:



Look at item 16017. It's the little silver thing that slips up into the channel that the needle goes through. I can't tell from this diagram which way it goes. One end of this thing is wide open, the other is closed off with a hole in it (for lack of a better way to describe it). I currently have it in there with the wide open end upwards.

When I cleaned my KLX250S carb the last time (almost a year ago), it acted the very same way and the reason ended up being that I had that very part in backwards. So I'm wondering if I did that again. I wanted to know if anybody knew for sure before I pull the carbs out again.

Thanks!

Rob

 

Nevemind! Turned out to be the carb floats. I thought about it and thought about it and decided the piece was fine and it had to be the floats. So I pulled the carbs again, redid the floats, put it back together and all was good!

Now it clearly needs new jets (jet kit), pilot jet, and a carb sync. That'll happen another day. But for now, it runs!

Rob

 

Congrats on the progress.