marlboro man Posted December 2, 2012 Report Share Posted December 2, 2012 (edited) :Dfirst off start by hooking up gages with 5/32 hose to the 4 intakes ea. time till you get all gages at the same pont thay are tuchy & will move when you tighting nut back up it takes some time to get them just right Edited December 2, 2012 by marlboro man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strictly Street Posted December 2, 2012 Report Share Posted December 2, 2012 Nice cheap homemade tool.Good pics of the procedure too!Great post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gump Posted December 2, 2012 Report Share Posted December 2, 2012 It's more then getting the carbs to read all the same on the Gage's. you're adjusting air/fuel mix also I thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marlboro man Posted December 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2012 It's more then getting the carbs to read all the same on the Gage's. you're adjusting air/fuel mix also I thought. yes I adjusted that to but the main thing was I noted that the carbs where out of wack whenI first got the bike & cleand them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gump Posted December 3, 2012 Report Share Posted December 3, 2012 Cool. Nice post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streetfighterkz Posted December 3, 2012 Report Share Posted December 3, 2012 How's the Z1 carbs run on the 900? Did you have to rejet them at all?Later, Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marlboro man Posted December 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2012 How's the Z1 carbs run on the 900? Did you have to rejet them at all?Later, Doug I didnt know that thay where the 1975 & older Late Z1-A & Z1-B Mikuni 28mm carbs & not the smaller 1976 26mm carbs till you pointed it out thanks for the in put http://www.z1enterprises.com/Z1CarbGuide.aspx I thank it runs a bit sluggish in low to mid rpms but this is my first kz & it was a barn find only cleaned carbs gas tank & did this have had no time to do any thing just looked up on people using the older biger carb on the 1976 instead of the smaller 26mm some times you got to shim the needles to get rid of the low to mid slug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gixxus Christ! Posted December 5, 2012 Report Share Posted December 5, 2012 Def sounds like you need to either move the needle clip down or shim it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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