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Hi all,
Really loving my new 73 CB350! Unfortunately, history of the carbs is a little murky and PO had a mechanic doing past work so he doesn't really know/remember details. What I can tell is that he ran pods for a short period of time on non-stock mikunis and when it didn't work out, he reverted to stock carbs and filters. However I cannot tell if the stock carbs were also re-jetted for pods or if they are perfectly stock. I have yet to tear them off and look at whats in them as I live in manhattan and wrench on this thing on the sidewalk. What makes me suspicious of these carbs is that the bike doesn't have any power at WOT--- no "kick" that you would expect. When I fully gun it at low RPMs, it dies, and at high RPMs it doesn't really return any power. PO told me his mechanic also rebuilt these carbs but I know from experience that's pretty much worthless until I can open it up and see/do it myself. Added seafoam to my last tank fillup so seeing if that cleans the carbs out much.
Is this lack of power at WOT consistent with overly rich jetting that might have come from a pods setup, or should I look to some other maintenance issue? Spark advance, points, etc. Thanks!
Really loving my new 73 CB350! Unfortunately, history of the carbs is a little murky and PO had a mechanic doing past work so he doesn't really know/remember details. What I can tell is that he ran pods for a short period of time on non-stock mikunis and when it didn't work out, he reverted to stock carbs and filters. However I cannot tell if the stock carbs were also re-jetted for pods or if they are perfectly stock. I have yet to tear them off and look at whats in them as I live in manhattan and wrench on this thing on the sidewalk. What makes me suspicious of these carbs is that the bike doesn't have any power at WOT--- no "kick" that you would expect. When I fully gun it at low RPMs, it dies, and at high RPMs it doesn't really return any power. PO told me his mechanic also rebuilt these carbs but I know from experience that's pretty much worthless until I can open it up and see/do it myself. Added seafoam to my last tank fillup so seeing if that cleans the carbs out much.
Is this lack of power at WOT consistent with overly rich jetting that might have come from a pods setup, or should I look to some other maintenance issue? Spark advance, points, etc. Thanks!