Recent content by duanes7

Looks like the number 3 fuel shutoff needle is seeping.

Will do that once I am ready to start it again, Thanx.

Saw a post where someone put clear tubing into the bowl drain holes, let the carbs fill under grav, and used the tubing to see where the level of the fuel is in the bowl. Will check this out tomorrow (hopefully) to ensure good float level settings. Hopefully it was just the pump!

Have a 76 gl1000 that I just barely put back on the road. I noticed evidence of fuel leakage from the fuel pump (streaks of brownish gold). Bike sat for 3 weeks before I could get a brand new eom pump. Put the new one on it yesterday and noticed tank was empty (I know, shut off the petcock...

She fired and ran yesterday with no help form any starter fluid! Thanx for all of your help! Still need to balance the carbs and some other fine tweeks. But for the first time ine 5-7, years she lives.

I try to be gentle, but these pins were not cooperating and needed a little more persuasion. Supposed to just push in and out by hand, right! Not after sitting for 5 years. Dissimilar corrosion anyone?

Have carbs completely disassembled. Managed to not break anymore stanchions. I did however score up 2 of the float pins pretty good and really bent one of them up. So, if anyone else finds themselves rebuilding an unknown set of carbs, order new float pins from Randakk and have them on hand...

Yeah, seems he has new stanchions that completely replace the old one. Not sure of price...

Have carbs off and ordered Randakk's kit (in the mail). Early tear down results... Only the number 3 vaccum piston would move and then only with difficulty. Also the choke linkage between 1 and 3 wasn't spinning with everything else. Pulled float from number 3 and broke off the short...

Ok, will give that a shot, Thanx. I will probably rebuils the cards soon and cetainly will use randakks stuff. But I'd sure like to hear it run, even if poorly, before I tear into something else and add to the list of potential problems.

As this is turrning into an ingition and/or fuel problem, I started a new thread. viewtopic.php?f=26&t=521

A little background... Have a 76 GL1000 that was given to me, hasn't been run in years. But the engine was "just rebuilt" according to previous owner. Engine wouldn't spin over with starter. Turned out starter was rebuilt with the wrong brush plate and spun the wrong way (see...

I read to pull the plugs, spin the engine for 15 seconds, wait a minute, repeat 2 more times, put the plugs back in and it should fire. She does fire. But only runs for a second or so. Had to "rotorooter" the tank lines just to get the petcock to flow. Still think it's fuel starved. If I let...

Had some other riders at work saying to "just kick start it." I figure if it won't start with the starter, there's no way I will get it to kick start. I also have a fairly steep drive, but if it rolls down and doesn't start I'd have to tow it back up. No thanks. The engine was supposed to have...

I found a couple of sites that have it listed... https://www.cyclewareables.com/pages/str ... mtrkit.htm https://www.nationsautoelectric.com/moto ... ation.html But ended up getting whole rebuild kit off ebay for about what cyclewareables has the brush plate listed for. Now the engine spins...