Woah! That was a crash course ;) Regards, Deepak
On 1/13/09, Arpan Divanjee <[email protected]> wrote: > HI rajeev, > Feels good to solve problems on the pulsar, these days they dont seem > to come by only. > >> - Started the bike with the selfstarter on a decently cold morning. Bike >> started as expected in such weather, with two tries or so. > > Choke/No Choke ? > After driving > >> There was some apparant muddiness in the petrol for 1 second, as it freely >> flowed out from the pipe. Put the pipe back. Started the bike. >> - In stationary condition, the bike would idle easily at 1000 RPM. >> However, >> the moment the accelerator was given, it would cut the engine. >> I am thinking it was dirt in the carb. Does it have a seive of some kind >> that can be cleared? I have never opened this carb with my own hands >> earlier. Only carb that I have ripped apart various times and reassembled >> was from a lambretta 150, and that was some 20 years back! However, I >> still >> remember the details of that carb pretty well. Is this 4 stroke carb >> hopefully going to be similar to that two stroker? > > You need to do a couple of things: > Lift petrol tank (one bolt under seat..disconnect fuel line and a > socket of fuel meter) > Clean the petrol tank. post removal of petrol tap. > ensure petrol feeder pipe is in good nick. you might want to replace > this if not done before. > Check carb rubber "manifolds" i.e rubber which connects carb to engine > and carb to airbox.if they have cracks in them etc replace. > take the carb apart. For that you need to remove acc cable. and choke cable. > this carb is not a slide carb hence the acc cable is on the side LHS > side of the carb. > use a phillips screw driver to remove the rubber manifolds, and to > open the screws at the bottom of the carb. clean the "katori" (bottom > of the carb) > use a good flat screw driver to remove the main jet and pilot jet. > before removing them you might want to spray some WD40 or carb cleaner > to loosen things up. > Try and not fiddle with the float height. > on the top of the carb there are two screws, open them to remove the > rubber diphagram and slide. clean everything with petrol, or better > use a carb cleaner (200 bucks one big bottle will last u 28 yrs :) ) > refit everything back. > Have a look at the airfilter too, you might want to replace this (very > inexpensive item) or you can just clean it in petrol. > This should get your bike up and running.All this will take about 1 hr > on a sunday. > > Bye > arpan > -- Sent from my mobile device
