centurion94
Active member
Good afternoon. I'm new here.
My 82 GL1100 and I just had another disagreement - she's out in the garage, smelling like gas. I'm in the house, smelling like gas. Oh, I freely admit that I caused this situation. My name is Don and I am a Goldwing abuser (do we get cookies after we confess, like in group therapy?).
Eight years ago :crying: I parked the Wing because of A) a leaking rear air suspension, persistent even after I rebuilt the shocks, combined with a wife/co-rider/navigator/tail gunner with a bulged disc in her back rendering her non-enthusiastic about bumps in the road, and B) what I suspected to be bad air cut-off valves. Some of you may know how easy it is to put off the horrifically mind-numbing ordeal of dismounting and re-mounting GL1100 carbs. This I did, for 8 years.
Bringing all this to the point, I have recently installed good quality non-air assist shocks, installed new air cut-off valves and reinstalled the carbs. Then I watched gas squirting into the plenum from the #2 carb, discovering that the new air cut-offs worked perfectly - started immediately with no choke and ran great - with the gas off. You know the rest.
So, now it's time to pull the carbs off, again, and I'll call any man a liar that says it gets easier the more you do it. In order for that to be true, you'd have to know exactly what you just did to either pop them out or back in. Okay, ordered new carb kits with new needle valves and seats, replaced as many o-rings as I could get to without separating carbs, set the float levels at 15.5mm the best I could without ever finding a useable photo to work from, and spent another 45 minutes or so re-mounting the carbs. And no, I do not know what I did to make them pop back in.
As soon as I got everything buttoned up, I turned the gas on and hit the starter, gazing down into the plenum. Nothing. Choke on, choke off, made no difference. The starter just spun. So I sat down and stared at the bike, mentally reviewing everything I had done up to that point. Hey, the last time, it just started right up. So I sat there for a while longer, and then got up and reconnected the spark plugs. :doh:
Started right up! I noticed right away that the accelerator pump was functioning properly, since there was gas pouring out of the #2 and 4 carb bowl seals and the #4 drain screw (which was tight).
This happened once before about 10 years ago - I'd gone in and replaced some o-rings and cleaned the jets and it leaked like a sieve. I was planning a road trip to Iowa City the next day and I was so disgusted, I pulled the key, left it in the driveway and went to get Long John Silver's fish and beer with which to comfort myself (wife was already in Iowa City). Next morning, just for giggles, I started it again and it ran like a champ - totally dry! Remembering this, I went back out a little while ago and started it again. #4 bowl leak has slowed WAY down, now most of the leak seemed to be coming from the north end of the crossover between #2 and #4.
Someone please tell me that these o-rings will also dry up again! I don't think we have enough cheese in the house to go with the whining I'll be doing if I have to pull the carbs again. Let me repeat - I don't have a clue how I got them out the last time, or back in today!
Is this post in the right place?
don
P.S. Maybe later we can continue with the group therapy thing and I'll tell a tear-jerker of a story about what happens to your front brakes when they sit there for about, oh, eight years...
My 82 GL1100 and I just had another disagreement - she's out in the garage, smelling like gas. I'm in the house, smelling like gas. Oh, I freely admit that I caused this situation. My name is Don and I am a Goldwing abuser (do we get cookies after we confess, like in group therapy?).
Eight years ago :crying: I parked the Wing because of A) a leaking rear air suspension, persistent even after I rebuilt the shocks, combined with a wife/co-rider/navigator/tail gunner with a bulged disc in her back rendering her non-enthusiastic about bumps in the road, and B) what I suspected to be bad air cut-off valves. Some of you may know how easy it is to put off the horrifically mind-numbing ordeal of dismounting and re-mounting GL1100 carbs. This I did, for 8 years.
Bringing all this to the point, I have recently installed good quality non-air assist shocks, installed new air cut-off valves and reinstalled the carbs. Then I watched gas squirting into the plenum from the #2 carb, discovering that the new air cut-offs worked perfectly - started immediately with no choke and ran great - with the gas off. You know the rest.
So, now it's time to pull the carbs off, again, and I'll call any man a liar that says it gets easier the more you do it. In order for that to be true, you'd have to know exactly what you just did to either pop them out or back in. Okay, ordered new carb kits with new needle valves and seats, replaced as many o-rings as I could get to without separating carbs, set the float levels at 15.5mm the best I could without ever finding a useable photo to work from, and spent another 45 minutes or so re-mounting the carbs. And no, I do not know what I did to make them pop back in.
As soon as I got everything buttoned up, I turned the gas on and hit the starter, gazing down into the plenum. Nothing. Choke on, choke off, made no difference. The starter just spun. So I sat down and stared at the bike, mentally reviewing everything I had done up to that point. Hey, the last time, it just started right up. So I sat there for a while longer, and then got up and reconnected the spark plugs. :doh:
Started right up! I noticed right away that the accelerator pump was functioning properly, since there was gas pouring out of the #2 and 4 carb bowl seals and the #4 drain screw (which was tight).
This happened once before about 10 years ago - I'd gone in and replaced some o-rings and cleaned the jets and it leaked like a sieve. I was planning a road trip to Iowa City the next day and I was so disgusted, I pulled the key, left it in the driveway and went to get Long John Silver's fish and beer with which to comfort myself (wife was already in Iowa City). Next morning, just for giggles, I started it again and it ran like a champ - totally dry! Remembering this, I went back out a little while ago and started it again. #4 bowl leak has slowed WAY down, now most of the leak seemed to be coming from the north end of the crossover between #2 and #4.
Someone please tell me that these o-rings will also dry up again! I don't think we have enough cheese in the house to go with the whining I'll be doing if I have to pull the carbs again. Let me repeat - I don't have a clue how I got them out the last time, or back in today!
Is this post in the right place?
don
P.S. Maybe later we can continue with the group therapy thing and I'll tell a tear-jerker of a story about what happens to your front brakes when they sit there for about, oh, eight years...
opcorn: :salute:
