GSXR250 really thirsty.

[Gibbo89]

will this ever end??!!!!

got it all back together now the carbs are in desperate need of a tune, but i can't seem to find anything on it that screams this is the screw your looking for. down to the bike shop tomorrow i think..... sigh

did you buy the bike cheap? i just wonder as you are having a few issues with it at the moment. is the cbr going well?

[dynamite9585]

ogot the bike for 2k.

the main problem is my OCD for perfection and my compulsion to tinker.

my dad had a saying as he wandered off to the shed. "if it ain't broke..... i'll fix it anyway"

CBR is going great. GSXR isn't bad, i felt it needed a carb clean and got that done. the "is it ever going to end" is more frustration from other things. like gatting everything together to go down and put the GSXR back together and locking myslef out of the house, then the airbox being a prick to get on (took over an hour. turns out it's much easier to sttack the carbs to the air box then attach them to the bike). that and it has been harder to find the bits and bobs for my carb balancer than i expoected today (took half a day to come home practically empty handed)

tomorrow i will get a grease monkey to have a crack at tuning and blanacing then i'll be set, happy and on my way....

[neels]

but i can't seem to find anything on it that screams this is the screw your looking for.

There are screws on the engine side of the carbs, one next to each throttle where they go into the intake rubbers. They are the bleed air screws, to start with these should all be set the same number of turns out, I think I read 1.5 turns for a GSX250F, don't know if this is right for a GSXR

To balance the carbs there is a screw on the linkage between the carbs which adjusts the shafts relative to each other.

The idle adjust is a screw on a stop for the throttle cable, it might have a length of rubber hose attached to it, you might need to adjust the cable adjusting nuts as well.

[Jonno.]

Er didn't you say the mech fixed the screws and commented on how they were "on the piss"?

[dynamite9585]

Er didn't you say the mech fixed the screws and commented on how they were "on the piss"?

the carb guy, he didn't have the rest of the engine.

[mikemike104]

so you guys up for a ride this sunday maybe ?

[dynamite9585]

put the bike back together fully (fairlings and all) today and just got back from a bit of a ride.

what a difference the tune does!!!!!
as for sunday, unlikely. she is working.
tomorrow we are going down to tokoroa.

[Gibbo89]

put the bike back together fully (fairlings and all) today and just got back from a bit of a ride.

what a difference the tune does!!!!!
as for sunday, unlikely. she is working.
tomorrow we are going down to tokoroa.

good to see the suzuki is going hard now.

[dynamite9585]

yea it's good now, but what i want to know is:

WHO THE BLOODY HELL THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA MAKE YOU REMOVE THE EXHAUST TO DO AN BLOODY OIL FILTER CHANGE!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!

spent ages trying to get at the bloody thing, ended up un bolting the exhaust from the smokey end and using a jimmy bar to give me the 5mm i needed to get the old filter out and the new one in.

managed to get alot of those niggly jobs done in the mean time tho. like the rattle i could hear and not find, turns out someone had taked the radiator off at some point and hadn't put a bit of steel back in the right place.

[dynamite9585]

WOOT WOOT!!!

went to tokoroa today, filled up in camebridge and made it down there and back with plenty of gas to spare.

trip meter is about to tick over 200km, and i'm still not on the red marking of my fuel gauge.

last trip down (when i realised something was wrong) i had filled up in hamilton and was having to goto the gas station before i was even ready to leave tokoroa.