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still having trouble tuning. Got new plugs and now it starts right up everytime, idle is erratic and hangs and drops and sometimes shoots way up to above 3k. with the airbox attached it does not want to take any load, just boggs and dies. with just the boots on the carbs it runs better but still ext...

Is there a special trick to getting the float needle holder thing back in its hole flush? I re-cleaned both sets of my carbs, taking everything i could apart, minus the whole bank, but now i cant get that piece to go all the way in. is there a special trick? or do i just have to keep pushing on it t...

I turned the mixture screws out to 3, and it started after a while with a little help from some starting spray. didnt really want to idle and would hang before returning to idle with some throttle. intake boots are fine, no cracks or leaks. went for a real short ride and with any throttle it bogged ...

I have another thread going about my head rebuild, http://fzronline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=9724 I have it all back together and cant get it to start. it will start without the airbox on, with the boots from the air box it will fire with wot but dies as soon as throttle is let off, with airbox...

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got it to start, sprayed some starting fluid in the air box, and after a few cranks it fired up. wont idle, ill have to adjust the mixture screws and the idle screw. once i get it all buttoned up ill post some pics.

Got everything back together, but i cant get it to start. it turns over but doesnt fire up, itll rumble and almost catch like its about to start but thats it. i have spark, valves were all in spec, tdc cam timing was just a smidge off but i saw a thread on here that it was ok, carbs were thoroughly ...

update. used the head from the new motor, drilled out all 4 plug holes, tapped and heli-coiled, came out perfect. Painted the cylinders and head flat black, along with the stator cover and peanut. waiting on some gaskets, o-rings, front sprocket lock washer thing and some other misc parts from bikeb...

what i figured

Would it be a bad idea to fix the new head(the one thats not on the bike) and replace the one on the bike with that? either way i have to take the head off the bikes engine, but since i have a whole motor already out i was thinking of just repairing that one and swapping heads.

bought the motor, also got the carbs, airbox, gas tank, and coils for $250. seller said it ran strong before it was crashed into a guard rail about a month ago. got it all into my garage and up on the table only to discover that it too has f*ed up plug holes. pretty sh.tty luck. I even checked that ...

heres a little update. found a local cl sale of a fzr with a parts bike included. offered $250 for the whole engine including carbs of the parts bike, heres a link to the cl add http://burlington.craigslist.org/mcy/3037371165.html Just wanted to get some opinions on if its a good deal for $250, i th...

Yeah ive heard of the heli-coil inserts and my old roommate works at a local machine shop, so i knew i wasnt screwed, but just ugh. guess ill be removing the head. it must have been cross threaded badly in its lifetime. at least my buddy just got a 2012 FZ8 that i can rip on while hes out of town fo...

So out for a ride today, heard some ticking coming from the cylinders. got back to my house figuring it was the plug caps that had to be trimmed back on one or more. discovered that one of my plugs had come loose. so i get out the socket and try tightening it down but all it does is spin, never gets...

I got the drag bars from a buddy for free, when i got the bike one of the clip-ons was bent, and it had no plastics not even the front upper, so fighter was pretty much my only option as a poor college student, and i found a few posts on here about the seca conversion. not sure about the reversed ri...

Thought id post a few pics of the fzr ive been slowly working on. its a 91 fzr 600, chopped tail, custom undertail and painted taillight, secaII upper tripple with drag bars, chopped 'shorty' v&h exhaust, custom headlight mount with 2 4" rounds, stainless flask overflow bottle, dummy lights in tank ...