Got the carbs pulled off my 1000F (USA) last night. Came off ridiculously easy. I’d rather do 100 of these before I pull another set off a Sabre. Now that I’ve done the Sabre 3 times, I can get them off in about 30-45 minutes, with a lot of prying and profanity. The interceptor literally took 5 minutes to remove them.
The float bowls and jets are nearly spotless. Which was really surprising given that the gas in the filter was dark brown, about the shade of Coca Cola. Turns out, the last person to work on the carbs routed the fuel pump into the emissions equipment, so if it was running, it was dumping fuel straight onto the top of the butterflies.
Got the rebuild kit so I’m gonna clean em up and install this weekend hopefully. Can’t wait to hear it run.
Haven’t taken many good pictures of it yet, here’s what I could find in my camera roll. These were from the advertisement, and a few from the carb pull (Dads 83 in the background) Seems really clean, will need a lot of love though. I’m really excited to work on it. I’ve got the next two days off so hopefully I’ll have it running tomorrow or the next day. My Sabres throttle cable finally shipped too, so lots of fun this week.
Great score, as Smithy said, keep us informed of progress.
Interesting exhaust system, can you take some close up pics of underneath and both sides? Looks like someone was trying to replicate factory racing equal length pipes.,
Couldn’t really get a great picture where it’s at currently, but you can kind of see it here.
I think it looks kinda slick, would look a lot better with some slimmer mufflers, seen some yoshimuras that look really good. Hopefully the supertrapps sound good though. If anyone here has the tunable supertrapp mufflers I’d love to hear it, looks like it’ll be next week before I get the carbs back on. I ordered some methyl salicylate (wintergreen oil) off Amazon to make a softening solution for the funnels and intake boots.
Those pipes will help if you fit a jet kit…much better exhaust flow than the stock box…they’re quite rare too. You can easily buy new carbie/manifold rubber boots…they’re also quite cheap if you shop around.
Sweeeet. I may shop around for a jet kit while I have it apart, if I can get something to come quickly I might order it. If not I really just want to hear it run right now. Just read your other comment on the carb post. Would be neat to play with that stuff a bit. I feel a little more open to experimenting with mods on the 1000. My Sabre (my first bike) is my baby. I’d be too scared to play around with that kind of stuff on it lol.
Very very similar. This is a California carb set so it’s got extra ports for emissions that my Sabre doesn’t have, but other than that, physical size is the only difference. I’ll be doing away with the ports as my region doesn’t require any sort of emissions equipment.
It runs, and pretty damn good all things considered (minus backfires). It’ll probably be 100x times better once I get the airbox/filter put back on, I think it’s gonna need a jet kit eventually. I’m sure the airbox being off, and having a full exhaust with no carb mods is contributing to it backfiring. Only on the left side though, so I’m assuming it’s either cylinder 1 or 2 having problems.
Update, I think a big contributor to the poor running was me forgetting to tighten the carb boots. It was also spraying oil out of the clutch cover. I pulled it off tonight and found a section of gasket missing. I found some metal while I was in there. 2 little piles on the bottom of the clutch cover, and some small slivers stuck to the pulse generators (because of the magnets). I was told they put a starter in it, (maybe the starter gear grenaded?) I cleaned out as much as I could find.
I noticed a missing bolt before disassembly, I didn’t realize until I went to install the cover that it was not missing, but had broken off in the block. Tried the hammer and chisel method to no avail, gonna fill it with weld and attach a nut tomorrow, the bolt is almost hollowed out, and what’s left of the threads extends all the way out the edge, so hopefully a little blob of weld will work. Can’t wait to hear it run tomorrow with the air cleaner and boots properly installed.
Broken bolt circled.
Great you’ve got it running, well done!
It’s hard to concentrate and double/triple check your work at that stage- you want to get it running, and sometimes forget stuff. What do they say “slow down to get it done faster”
Re fitting a jet kit, personally I would wait, and ride it for a while to see how it performs with whatever jetting it has currently. Lots of people fit jet kits without any reference to the altitude, (height above sea level), of the area where they do most of their riding. Altitude, via atmospheric pressure, is the main factor in jet sizes. I haven’t seen any reference to altitude with VF jet kits, only Stage 1 etc. which don’t identify jet sizes.
Got the airbox fitted with a freshly cleaned filter, cleaned up the very nasty plugs, and its running 10 times better than before, throttle is very snappy, still getting some backfires through the carbs, and a couple faint pops out the exhaust, but overall running much better.
GOOD NEWS! The channel termination appeal was successful, I will begin posting progress update videos on the channel. Here’s the first fire up.
Bear in mind that in the video it was running with the airbox off, and I’d forgotten to tighten the carb boots. I’m assuming it had a lot to do with the backfires.
