monolith

yeah man, thanks for your help. by the way if you ever have to clean your carbs, i highly recommend the pine sol treatment, its quite amazing. you may have your own method but mine were filthy on the outside and they now look brand new. i throw some pics up of the bike when the seat is done.

believe it or not slightly adjusting the pilot screws really helped, in fact, it comes back down at a normal speed and doesnt want to stay up unless i hold the throttle. i guess i didnt assume before this would work, but it did. ill keep an eye on it and make sure it remains there but from here it seems pretty damn well solid.

sure that makes sense. how does one remedy that? maybe i will spray around those openings and see if that has an effect on how the bike runs. that way i will know...question is, am i looking at a new seal on the opening?

yeah i had a feeling it may be an intake leak but its weird that specifically the throttle linkage changes it. i will go ahead and try synching the carbs again and see if i can get it to stay down.

hello all. i have a 77 xs360 with some carb troubles. i had some trouble with the bike revving really high and not coming back down to idle. so i just soaked the carbs over night in pine sol solution. it worked amazingly! they are pristine! but still having problems, although its better, with the bike not coming back down to idle. my thinking is one of the butterflies is staying open just enough to let more air in than the other. the throttle cable returns nicely, i lubed the cable really well. if i rev the bike up to 3000 rpm it stays there and i have to kill the bike. i thought it may be a sticking slider but they both seem to return just fine. the only other thing i that will bring it back down is if i ever so slightly turn the linkage that extends from the outer portion of the carb. its really more of a bump...it is the portion that contains the spring. the linkage is very clean and i thought soaking everything would do the trick but unfortunately it did not. if i loosen the nut on the end of the linkage the bike comes down but very slow. so all in all, this is why my thinking is leading towards one of the butterflies being slightly off. there has to be excess air getting in there somewhere? can anyone confirm im not crazy? thanks!