LOOKING FOR ADVICE on a friends bike
i've about had it with this CL350. Wondering if anyone has any thoughts.
CL350 that initially ran well. Did a light customization on it including UNI pods and stock headers with EMGO slip ons. Had the carbs rebuilt and re-jetted (supposedly professionally). Got the bike back together and it ran like crap. Cuts out and loses power around 6000RPM. took a look at carbs again- seems OK. Just for the hell of it, we upgraded to a complete dynotek ignition (pickup, wires, coil) . Compression is good. New plugs, new petcock and lines.
Bike still runs like crap above 6000RPM. Below that, its fine- you get to about 6000-6500 RPM and it starts bogging and losing power. In particular, it gets really bad in top gear (5th) when you try to go past 6000 RPMs. Only tops out at about 60MPH before it loses power.
Took a look at the carbs myself today for the third time. Everything looks good, except one of the floats was bent and way off, so I figured I would get lucky today, but that didn't seem to solve the issue.
So....... I figured i would do some more troubleshooting. I ran the bike on one cylinder purposely by disconnecting a plug wire one at a time. When I run the left cylinder only, it runs great. I can shift thru all the gears to redline. When I try the right cylinder, it bogs out and loses power around 6000 RPM, similar to my issues that I am having. So it seems something is awry on the right side.
I swapped out left and right fuel lines--- No change. Still loses power on the right side.
I swapped out all the ignition wires, coils, plugs etc from right to left---- No change, which implies its not the ignition. Still loses power on the right side.
I swapped out all the internal carb parts including needles, floats, diaphragms, etc from right to left- No change. Still loses power on the right side.
Any thoughts? Seems like it is probably NOT the carbs or the ignition. Could it be a valve issue? You would think it would run like crap all the time and not just at 6000 RPM and above? I suppose some of you will chalk it up to PODS and tell me that CL350's cannot run properly on PODS. I get that, but if it were jetting or PODS, I don't think it would be acting the way it is.
i've about had it with this CL350. Wondering if anyone has any thoughts.
CL350 that initially ran well. Did a light customization on it including UNI pods and stock headers with EMGO slip ons. Had the carbs rebuilt and re-jetted (supposedly professionally). Got the bike back together and it ran like crap. Cuts out and loses power around 6000RPM. took a look at carbs again- seems OK. Just for the hell of it, we upgraded to a complete dynotek ignition (pickup, wires, coil) . Compression is good. New plugs, new petcock and lines.
Bike still runs like crap above 6000RPM. Below that, its fine- you get to about 6000-6500 RPM and it starts bogging and losing power. In particular, it gets really bad in top gear (5th) when you try to go past 6000 RPMs. Only tops out at about 60MPH before it loses power.
Took a look at the carbs myself today for the third time. Everything looks good, except one of the floats was bent and way off, so I figured I would get lucky today, but that didn't seem to solve the issue.
So....... I figured i would do some more troubleshooting. I ran the bike on one cylinder purposely by disconnecting a plug wire one at a time. When I run the left cylinder only, it runs great. I can shift thru all the gears to redline. When I try the right cylinder, it bogs out and loses power around 6000 RPM, similar to my issues that I am having. So it seems something is awry on the right side.
I swapped out left and right fuel lines--- No change. Still loses power on the right side.
I swapped out all the ignition wires, coils, plugs etc from right to left---- No change, which implies its not the ignition. Still loses power on the right side.
I swapped out all the internal carb parts including needles, floats, diaphragms, etc from right to left- No change. Still loses power on the right side.
Any thoughts? Seems like it is probably NOT the carbs or the ignition. Could it be a valve issue? You would think it would run like crap all the time and not just at 6000 RPM and above? I suppose some of you will chalk it up to PODS and tell me that CL350's cannot run properly on PODS. I get that, but if it were jetting or PODS, I don't think it would be acting the way it is.