Carb cleaning question

[alramirez_82]

I posted recently about my '06 SS750 not running well after sitting for a while. It starts right up with full choke but when I turn the choke off it sputters and when I try to give it throttle it dies. I replaced the fuel filter but its doing the same thing. i also added sea foam and let it run but I doubt sitting letting it idle is enough and I can roll down the street in first but I can't give it any throttle without it dying so I'm thinking my carbs need to be cleaned. I'm good with my hands but I've never taked carbs out and cleaned the before. Is this something I might be able to do myself or should I see about taking it to a shop? Are there any walkthroughs on how to do this on my model bike? Any help and info is greatly appreciated! Thank you.

Al

[Nitro2u]

Give this a read. It has worked for me.

http://cycles.evanfell.com/2008/09/h...the-right-way/

[still_bluenoser]

I'm not familiar with your carbs, but their all about the same.

Your gona need to be very organized, pictures if its your first time are great. That link was quite good, but dont dip your carbs in any carb cleaner unless you have them broke apart and ALL the rubber parts are out.

It is something that everyone has had a first time doing. If your organized and take your time, you wont have any problems. A clean work area is needed.

I dip mine in pinesol for 24hours or more before doing anything. It really loosens up built up sludge and wont harm your rubber parts. Make sure you rinse it very well after though if the carbs are going to sit for a long time before use.

[Science.Dan]

I did mine for the first time a few months ago. It's not so bad. I personally liked Berryman's dip and felt that the pinesol didn't remove the varnish as much. Berryman's is much more potent and you ahve to make sure you take it all apart and avoid plastic or rubber parts in the chem dip. Do a thread search and read about everyone else's experience.

[alramirez_82]

I am definately willing to tackle this its just a tad intimidating I guess for the first time. Are the Clymer manuals any help for a project like this? I'd like to save some money and do it myself. Thanks again for all the help.

[Mentat Ix]

I reference a clymer manual when I did mine (I have the honda one on my pc, but a hard copy of the clymer), but once I had the carbs off the bike, it's pretty straight forward. I did mine with electro contact cleaner spray with a straw - do one carb at a time, do not take them apart from eachother - give it a good overall cleaning, then start pulling jets one at a time and spraying through them with the contact cleaner.


Worked well for me, and no problems mixing up or losing parts - I just put all the bits in a metal paint tray as I went.

Edit: http://www.justzeros.com/products/Ma...t-Cleaner.html this stuff. Worked great.

I guess if your carbs are really bad, you might need something else, but mine had some pretty serious clogging and slide sticking going on - all I used was this and a soft cloth for the whole job. Running great now.

[Science.Dan]

I used my clymer book. I have the honda service manual on the computer, but didn't need it. It is pretty straight forward. +1 on doing each carb separately. If you do the berryman's chem dip, you'll need to separate them. Not a hard deal. There aren't too many pieces, but if you do lose track of something, it's pretty easy to identify a piece from the diagram in the clymer book. Mine had a lot of varnish so I used a tooth brush and compressed hair to help clean certain stuff. Fishing line works great for the jets as well as the toothbrush bristles.

[alramirez_82]

Seems kind of straight forward I will just try to take lots of pictures and put things back the way they were. I searched for a thread about it but didn't find anything for this particular bike.