Started on valve cover gasket replacement process

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Received the 4 OEM diaphragm's in the mail today so planning to get the old ones replaced and the RSV back together again so I can crank her up & make sure there are no other issues. The weather has been pretty crappy this week so been in the garage quite a bit. I just finished putting my duel sport bike back together today (Honda CRF300L), had it stripped down to replace the cams and do some air box & throttle body mods and had the ECU re-programmed to give her a little more go juice. Still enjoy riding trails and doing occasional single track racing. Hope everyone had a great Christmas!

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Got the new vacuum slide diaphragms installed last night & then re-installed the carbs, airboxes & fuel tank for a quick run test. Been raining for the last few days so fired it up inside the garage for about 30seconds just to confirm it would run and no more gas going thru overflow hoses. Would run on choke only but I am guessing that is partly because I still haven't yet re-installed the mid y-pipes or the mufflers so zero back pressure. At least now that I know it will run right and that my float heights are likely correct and no more air leaks from the diaphragms (I made sure each diaphragm was air tight by using air compressor to do a short blast thru the carb hole to make sure it would operate the needle slide from air pressure...glad I tested before installing the carbs cause one of them still had a minor air leak after install so I removed, adjusted & re-installed and then re-tested and it was good to go after that). Figure now I can put everything back together to give it a proper test. Since I had all 4 carbs completely apart I probably need to reset the idle and may need to tweak the air/fuel mix screws (assembled them at 3.5 turns out which is where they were set initially and also the starting point that Ivans Performance recommends it be started at after installing his needles & main jets).

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Got it all back together to start it up earlier... started & ran real good once I dialed in the idle setting properly. Still misting and wet from all the rain here so after letting it warm up good I only drove it about a mile thru the neighborhood and it ran good so super stoked about that! Since in neighborhood it was only 1st gear with 2nd gear only in lower rpm's...only thing I noticed that may require some tuning was in 2nd gear at the lower rpm it "burbled" a bit when I twisted the throttle good, almmost sounded like it was running a little rich. Probably easily tuned out using the air/fuel mix screws. I know all the carb boots and air filter system is tight with no leaks but also gonna double check the exhaust flanges to be sure I dont have any air leaks there since I suppose that could also cause something like that, those short y-pipes are not the easiest to get on/off since you gotta flex them together for them to fit smoothly so hopefully I didnt bogger up either of those seals at all. What is the easiest way to check for air leaks there, spray bottle with soapy water? 

Gonna get my carb tune out and make sure all the carbs are synced well and then take a break to work on some other projects once I get it all running perfectly and know for sure I wont have to work on it once riding weather comes back. Last thing on my to-do list for this bike is to install 4) new DB402 polk speakers for the front/rear tho it will likely be a few weeks before I get back to that . Thanks for anyone who helped me thru this with comment/advice!

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Speakers all replaced. Back together and all good to go, just need to get carb sync done at some point when there is a nice day!