I am at my whits end. I am very close to saying screw it, and ordering the BS34 kit from WG. My VM26's have been cleaned and blown with compressed air several times. I have done the coil repowering mod in combination with installing new Dyna coils and wires. the spark plugs are new and gapped correctly. I have statically timed the bike (Dyna III ignition). It won't idle well/low enough to do it dynamically. I jetted the carbs per WG's recommendations (112.5 mains, 17.5 pilots) and set idle screw to 1.25 turns out per manual as well as trying 1.5 and 1.75 turns. The floats are all perfectly even (can't remember what height I set them to, but I got it from the mutual consenses here). I bench sync'ed them as best I could and as best as I can tell with the rough idle on my vaccuum tester, the vaccuum is pretty even. The compression checked out great. The cams are on the right teeth and I reset the chain tentioner per the manual. I have pods on it with stock exhaust, but they don't have the lip in them that would/could restrict airflow.
I can't come up with any more reasons why this damn bike ('77kz1000b1) won't run right. The idle is rough, but it will run w/o the choke on. However, when I try to ride it, it doesn't really want accelerate. It jerks and lerches, boggs down, then will try to take off, but poorly. I have been fighting with this bike for, what has now become, years. I don't know what else to do.
Post edited by: kzmason, at: 2006/10/28 20:19