Squarewheel

Well, 180 miles later I'm pleased with the performance of this bike. My only complaint is the darn thing makes me want to ride faster than the posted speed limits.

Ok. Bike is running great. My original problem was solved by removing the mud a dauber had packed in the vent tube from the tank. The only one I forgot to check. My second problem was solved by replacing the spring for the needle that I failed to install after inspecting the carbs yesterday. Found it on the ground this morning. That will make a person feel stupid. I almost didn't want to mention that, but since everyone took the time to help me I thought you deserved to be amused from my mistake. Thank-you so much for the input. I learned a bunch. I'm sure I'll need the info you gave me in the future. Going riding with the wife. She's been very patient with my obsessiveness over the bike the past week.

Only backfires when I rev it during warm up. Once she's warm and ready to ride it won't backfire.

The hose I blew through tees off and goes to both carbs on the right side and both flooded with gas through the mains. I had the covers off and the needles out for inspection at the time I did this. Everything seemed clean in there otherwise. I don't know if the left side does the same thing because the tee that connects the carbs was torn from dry rot. The carbs were rebuilt and cleaned recently because of other rubber parts that were in bad shape. Got the tee on order.

I'm moving back to Wisconsin in a couple of weeks. Been riding on and off here in Mississippi all winter. I planned the move to get out of here before the heat caused me to park the bike and hide indoors until fall. Should be just about the right weather in Black River Falls to keep on riding till the snow flies again. Can't wait. I lived in Kenosha WI 5 years ago.

Ok. I changed the plugs checked spark and checked vent hoses. When I blew through the right carb vent hose, fuel poured out of main jets. Is that normal? Found the tee on the left side vent hose torn so I'll be ordering a new one Monday. Put new air filters in and last I synced the carbs. This time on the test ride I've seemed to have lost power off idle but it runs fast and smooth at higher rpms. Didn't notice the roughness like before, but I didn't ride very long and park it like my rides to and from work. Its gonna be a beautiful day tomorrow so a long ride is in order. Oh it was idling a little rough on the right side so I ended up turning mixture screw on rear carb out about another 1/4 turn and it smoothed out. That's all I have for now. I just need to get rid of the chugging off idle when accelerating now.

Thanks for all the advice. I will check these out and let you know what I find.

2010 venture

Every morning my bike starts and runs great. I'll ride it 23 miles to work with no problems. When I ride it home, the bike seems like I have a v twin instead of a v4. If I stop, turn it off and let it set, it may run like it did in the morning. There's no consistency to this other than no problem when first started for the day. Same thing happens if I start out on a ride in the am and have to stop for gas. Runs good before the stop then back to what feels like a solid mount Harley engine. Any ideas?