Emerald Fuel-up Log

2001 Kawasaki W650
Property of chukcha14. Added Jul 20 2023

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Feb 12 2024

I filled the fork legs with 15W fork oil, reassembled and torqued the fork legs. I also completely disassembled the carburetor for cleaning. As I was working on it I discovered that the idle fuel screw on the second cylinder was screwed in too tight, so it was leaning the mix while the idle fuel screw on the first cylinder was too loose thus it was making the idle mixture too rich. This explains the difference in the spark plugs. The first plug was more sooty while the second plug looked lean. The float needles were bad and need to be replaced. Float position was wrong on cylinder 2 and it was too rich. That explains the fuel oil puddle in the airbox. I cleaned the airbox and adjusted the float position and idle screws to 2.5 turns each (should be 2.1/8 turns in the service manual). I made it a bit richer just to see how it runs and I’ll decrease it later. Waiting for new o-ring for the steering stem and new float valve and idle screw o-rings from China. Waiting for bearing puller from China. The bike is still disassembled.

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Added by chukcha14 on Feb 12 2024 at 3:21 am