Any help with this would be much appreciated for this aspiring DYI person.
Several months ago my 99' SV started running rich for unknown reasons. I did not do any modifications to the bike. Please don't harass me too much about procrastination, kicking myself enough on it.
Symptoms:
-smells like gas in the airbox
-some visible smoke during initial startup and exhaust reeks of gas, after completely warmed up smoke is not noticible and doesn't smell as bad.
-after warm up, I need to rev to about 3-4k to keep it from bogging down for the first atempt to get moving
-the top of the intake valves are well coated in carbon-oily looking.
-spark plugs were blackish but 2 friends said it looked fairly normal wear
I put in a new set of spark plugs a week ago and the engine was sounding crisp and none of the above symptoms occurred and felt overall better performance, for about 2 hours.
Today I decided to get down to the problem and pulled the carbs out, everything is stock, the needles/jets seem to be fine, the A/F was 2.5 turns out as stock. A couple SVers had problems with the vacuum hose, but it appears to be fine. I don't have the tool for measuring fule level in the bowls, is it that important to check?
Several months ago my 99' SV started running rich for unknown reasons. I did not do any modifications to the bike. Please don't harass me too much about procrastination, kicking myself enough on it.
Symptoms:
-smells like gas in the airbox
-some visible smoke during initial startup and exhaust reeks of gas, after completely warmed up smoke is not noticible and doesn't smell as bad.
-after warm up, I need to rev to about 3-4k to keep it from bogging down for the first atempt to get moving
-the top of the intake valves are well coated in carbon-oily looking.
-spark plugs were blackish but 2 friends said it looked fairly normal wear
I put in a new set of spark plugs a week ago and the engine was sounding crisp and none of the above symptoms occurred and felt overall better performance, for about 2 hours.
Today I decided to get down to the problem and pulled the carbs out, everything is stock, the needles/jets seem to be fine, the A/F was 2.5 turns out as stock. A couple SVers had problems with the vacuum hose, but it appears to be fine. I don't have the tool for measuring fule level in the bowls, is it that important to check?