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charge the battery back up with the trickle charger and see how it takes the charge. You need to a determine how good the battery is at this point and you'll need a nice strong battery to help get the bike started, anyway.
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The battery charged back up to 100% in 3-4 hours. I have a Battery Tender Jr.
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when you cleaned out the carbs, did you remove the pilot jets, clean them out and also blow out the passages in the carbs with compressed air that the jets connect to? sounds to me like your pilot circuit is still clogged up. I'm not a fan of reaming jets out with wire and prefer to replace the jets with new ones if there are blockages in the jets that don't come out with a soaking of solvent and a blast of compressed air.
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Yes, I removed the jets. But I will pull the carbs again and clean it again to make sure using compressed air this time.
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set your float level back to the stock specs.
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Will do, I'll go back to stock idle mix, too.
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have you double checked the vacuum hoses for cracks and made sure the are connected correctly?
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Yes, everything looked good but I will double check.
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when I purchase a used bike, the first thing I do before I start modding anything it is to make sure everything is working perfectly first and all maintenance is up to date to set a known baseline.
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Yes, it was an impulsive thing to do but I thought I could get away with it because the bike idled (roughly) when I bought it originally. And the motor oil was like new when I drained it, the valves looked super clean. It was garage kept for years.
Well it did run when I bought it and it did run for a minute when I first started it up so I think it's just tuning it a bit. But there are a lot of variables.