seca-900 Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 Last night it (the 83 XJ900) finally started . After sitting for about 10 yrs, it is rough but ran for about 5 minutes while Playing with the idle. Got a miss or two and got spark shooting out of the exhaust which is way to loud (guessing some rust etc). Choke cable was seized solid so thats off for now. Piece by piece.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realrayzor Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 Result Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iandouglas Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 congratulations - any chance of some photos and details about the bike please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhat250 Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 Yeh " lets see what she looks like seca... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seca-900 Posted May 21, 2013 Author Share Posted May 21, 2013 Haven't figured how to post pics yet but did get it into my profile and into the vehicle section let me know if you can see it. Still have more to do yet to get her running decent though. It's in the garage section as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seca-900 Posted May 21, 2013 Author Share Posted May 21, 2013 Question do you guys run a second inline fuel filter or just the one off the valve ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seca-900 Posted May 26, 2013 Author Share Posted May 26, 2013 Well worked on the bike this morning, got the bike running but now she's dumping fuel from all 4 carbs down the overflow tubes. Since the bike has been sitting for a looonngg time guessing float or needle seats are stuck. Any other spots I should check . Man don't want to take the carbs back off........... Afterr doing MORE searching realized the 2 5/16 "vent" lines where plugged into each other, hence no venting, which would be causing the backpressure in the carbs I'm guessing. Going to pull one off today and see if thats the issue, so much better the removing carbs.....who makes vent lines that big ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 seca If you have photobucket, all you have to do is: Load pic onto PB click on gear icon (top right of pic) click 'get links' double click on direct link On your post click on the 'image icon' just below and to the left of the smiley icon paste your link onto that and tada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seca-900 Posted May 27, 2013 Author Share Posted May 27, 2013 Thanks Jimmy and thanks for posting it, also found out last night that the carbs on it are not the original one..now I have to find out what they are from. getting myself in deeper lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slice Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Pleased to hear that it is running, just the usual OLD BIKE problems to sort out which means sorting out other peoples horrible fixes or bodges, just keep plugging away once it's running it's all down hill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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