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And make sure that when you snug them altogether that the pots are all perfectly flat with each other. You will need a perfectly flat surface to set them on to accomplish this. So first you make sure that they are tight together, and then you bench sync them.

And some are 10s when you take em home but 2s the next morning. 🤪🤪🤪

Wow that was something to go through on your rear tire, but glad to hear that Revzilla agreed to replace your tire due to inconsistencies on the thread and perhaps a defect on manufacturing. You just had to remove the tire have a shop unmount and defective tire and remount the new tire over again. At the end of the day, glad you have the peace of mind knowing that you are confident on your tires. Blessing in disguise, you also have regreased/serviced the rear end of your bike. All the best on your carb service project. FWIW, I frequent Dennis Kirk for most of my bike needs.

I really like them too, they stick really well and do very well in the couple times I have been caught in some rain. Crazy story - I bought front/rear Shinko 777 tires in May of 2022 from Revzilla and when I got them I noticed the rear tire was dated 2121 and the front was 4821 (always check that just in case) - anyway 5-6 weeks ago I noticed a noise starting at the rear and isolated it too a wheel bearing starting to go bad so I removed the wheel to get the entire rear serviced and noticed right away that the rear tire had cracks inside all the tread siping but otherwise still looked really good. Had about 3500 miles on them. Not expecting a whole lot I contacted Revzilla and sent them detailed pictures and submitted some other data thinking I may as well see if they would warranty them since perhaps they had a tire run during that time period that was a bad lot since the front tire shows none of those cracks at all and looks perfectly normal. When not riding the bike is in garage 100% of the time. Too my surprise they agreed to replace the tire, told me to buy a new one and they sent me an RMA to return the old one to them and within a few days of the old tire getting there they fully refunded the purchase price of the new tire! So I was pretty stoked that they stood behind their product even after that much time/miles, if anything it further sold me on those tires since these days especially its rare for a business to step up and do the right thing.

Thank you for the pointers! I have not bench synced before since I have never done a quad setup, I have researched it some so I can do it correctly and then I have a Carbtune to finish re-syncing them once the bike is running again. I will probably use the "drill bit method" to bench sync unless someone can recommend a better way? I took apart the outer supports last night as well as stripped the float bowls & needle diaphragms along with all the internal parts. Came up with a method so I would not loose track of which parts go to which carbs, I numbered the carbs and also numbered areas for all the parts to go. Haven't finished disassembling the the quad setup yet as I haven't yet found good instructions on how to do it properly (no videos I could find showing the quads being separated) but I will figure that out one way or another this evening even if I gotta just wing it. Don't these carbs have ever been disassembled before, still had the caps over the mix screws and no scuff marks on them at all showing they had ever been popped off (all 4 were set to 3.5 turns out). I am 3rd owner, I know for sure the guy prior to me was not a DIY guy and from what he said he bought the bike from original owner with extremely low miles so doubt original owner had any reason to do anything either. Carb Internals are in surprisingly good shape for being 14yrs old, even the o-rings look pretty good tho I am obviously still going to replace everything. The float bowl o-rings show the worst build-up and there is a little bit of normal black build-up in the carb throats but no debris or sign of ethenol phase separation at all in the carbs & none of the jets had any build-up in them whatsoever, really helps make a case for running stabilized non-ethenol fuel like I have since getting the bike in 2021. Obviously when I take trips I use whatever fuel I can find but always switch back when on home turf since its readily available in my area since I am close to the largest lake in NC with a ton of boaters. Thanks again for helping a noob out!

I rarely go to the Dr. It's just a personal opinion that I'll leave at that. Went to one a couple of years ago, first time in 6 - 7 years, for pain in my shoulder when working over my head for an hour or more. Started happening when I was building a covered, gazebo type area in our back yard. Anyway, because I hadn't been in a long time he ordered a bunch of tests and x-rays of the shoulder, then decided to do both shoulders and my knees since they always hurt some. I go in for the results a couple of weeks later and he tells me about all my blood work being normal and he doesn't see anything wrong with me. I remind him I came in because of my shoulder. "Oh yeah, let's look at those x-rays. I see some arthritis", goes to the next one. "I see quite a bit of Arthritis." emphasizing arthritis a little. He gets to the 4th and 5th slides, looks at me and asks how old I am, "56". He responds with "Wow, I see a lot of Arthritis for your age. You never took it easy on your body, did you?". After a little laugh I told him "Live hard, die hard."

With the cost of Medical today it's not a stretch to say we are all $6 million people.

I'm sure you already know this but, make sure to bench sync the carbs before reinstalling them.

My sound effects are different though. I sound more like Rice Krispies when I’m moving.

around 2007, when I bought my 07 venture. some of the members of Star 297 Ft. Lauderdale told me about it.

Late reply here....my wife and I travelled down that way through a short section of Skyline Drive in early October. The Blue Ridge Parkway was closed at that time due to the hurricane damage. The section we travelled was beautiful that time of the year. We came across Hwy 250 from the 219. Hwy 250 from Huttonsville to Staunton WV looks fairly straight on a map...Wrong. It was a beautiful twisty road with breath taking scenery. It was obvious to me afterwords that going over the mountains is going to be a little twisty and up and down. It was a challenging ride to say the least, all loaded up with my wife on the back. I'll bring the Venture next time, I think it would handle the twisties better. We made it to the Howard Johsons just after dark, which wasn't wise travelling in the dark as we noticed lots of deer appearing at dusk. Made it safely and there must have been 25 motorcyclist's staying at HoJo's. Most of those bikes were in the class of adventure touring, which seems to be a popular way to ride, especially through the mountains. It was a great ride and hope to do it again next year and this time travel south down the Blue Ridge Parkway. Mark