carb tuning

Hey guys, finally I got my shiny new parts for my carbs I'm curious as to how high to set the float heights, in the last image the black line on the paper is 26mm without the gasket. I saw in this video that I need to tilt the carbs till the floats are sitting in the needle then measure...

I’m planning on putting pod air filters and straight headers on my torn apart 1982 xs400 maxim, do I need to change the needles or anything besides the pilot and main jets?

I have never owned a motorcycle or worked on small engines, so I figured rebuilding a non-running 1982 Yamaha maxim 400xs would be a great place to start. According to the previous owner this bike sat in a garage for six years but before it sat it ran great. I went through the carb twice and...

A few months ago I purchased a 1977 Yamaha xs360. The bike was in a very rough condition when I bought it so i spent these last months rebuilding nearly everything. I'm running stock-ish (not open) exhausts and the original carbs with pod filters. I replaced the #130 main jet with a #135 to...

1979 xs400F So I am now TRYING to get the carbs sync. Once I let the bike idle/warm up and shut off the choke, the bike takes off/over rev's. New battery-good charge New coils-Both primary's and secondary's checked out on install. Going to chack again Electronic Ignition! Valve spacing has...

It's about time I post a thread for my bike. I bought my first bike and am "so far" managing to figure out how to get things done, mostly from this site, Thank you. That said, I am having my carbs cleaned, I'm trying to figure out how to tune them for my bike when I get them back. I have read 3...