Hi folks,
I'm in a real pickle again with the ZXR (1989 750) running crap last week and after ordering parts and then being either out of stock, after saying they were in stock, and wrong stock ordered, I'm pretty buggered.
I can do basic stuff and have the manual to work on the bike, but lack the confidence to pull something apart, and then not being able to get it back together, as well as having a limited array of tools.
So here is the story (there always has to be a story)...
Tuesday 6am: pull up at work and the bike is running like crap and won't idle. So I figured if I finish early I can have a look at it later in the day. Get back to work yard at 6pm and start the bike to get home; it starts and runs with choke on. I head off home and it's spluttering and farting around but I get home ok... even starts to run ok under load. But with the family and all I never get a chance to look at it.... my week is pretty much the same with the bike getting me to work and home but under protest. Thrsday rolls around and I'm killing the job at work so figured I'll take friday off and get the bike sorted then so I rang the local bike shop, give him the correct info on the bike and order Air filter, fuel and oil filter. Yep, they are all in stock and ordered and I can pick it up Friday.
Friday rolls around, and well, I should have been more thorough on checking stuff but air filter that was in stock wasn't in stock. Ok I say, I can deal with that, they offered me some foam that I can use over the top but was not the correct size. And the oil filter sold to me was a internal one and I run a external (but this isnt a biggie as not to do with the running of the bike).
So I digress, pulling the bike apart to work on it and I notice that one of the bolts holding the cover on the airfilter is free spinning and won't come undone, so I have to remove the airbox off the carbs. No problem I say and then I miss a bolt in the airbox and can't figure how to pull it off so end up removing the carbs so I can get a good look at it in some light and find the resulting bolt and fix the problem. But find a new one all the 'O' rings are oversized on the carbs so run around Palmerston North on a sat am trying to find replacement and have to say all the bike shops I went to had nothing but they were helpful to try to get me sorted.
Purchased a special glue to be able to cut and glue 'O' rings to fit (done) and have cleaned out fuel filter because aftermarket one sold was 1/4 of the size of the existing one and didn't seal correctly. Replaced the sparkplugs and put everything together, and do you think I can get it to run...... no and now its even worse.
So anyone want to help me out? With work and family I'm struggling to find time yet this is my transport to work! (If I could afford to send it to the shop I would, parts yes but shop labour no).
Originally Posted by scracha
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after I've pulled the cabs apart and inspected them
for cutting the air box up, I said I hadn’t and he reckoned I had WTF? I told him I had only removed 2 side covers that looked like handle bar grips that bolted to the outside of the air box but these things where just a frame so had not air restriction. He said he had to cover up these holes to make the bike run better when tuning the bike... I said ok and thought nothing of it (but I also didnt look at what they had done.)
shitty with it) then I get her home and pull up outside my place and try to rev it but this time its not going to the 10k only 7 WTF? 
what's changed? I've only bolted on the air box?? then it hit me.... its not that fucken tape i replaced is it? so in go the fingers and just pull the tape off. give her a quick rev... whops off the limiter at 12k ok nicky dont get your hopes up, try it under load. So I head off down the road and yep we're all good again she revs out 
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