Emerald Fuel-up Log

2001 Kawasaki W650
Property of chukcha14. Added Jul 20 2023

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Mar 21 2024

The bike wasn’t running right. It was running too rich with lot’s of vibration on all rpm’s. Idle screws had nothing to do with it. I took off the carbs again and realized that I swapped the main jet needles between cylinders. This caused the richness and vibrations. After that I rechecked and adjusted the floats and put back the 2.1/8 turns out for idle screws. The main vibrations at speed were gone and solved, but the idle was too lean with lots of shaking popping sounds on deceleration. So I put the idle setting back to 2.1/4 turns out. The bike likes this setting a lot more. Vibes are almost gone, but idle is still too lean and the bike takes a long time to warm up. I’ll leave it like that for now. Need to check out the fuel economy at this setting. I think I’ll set the idle screws at 2.3/8 later.

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Added by chukcha14 on Mar 21 2024 at 1:43 am