Carb sync issues

[Jeff Gordon]

Good evening.......I am having nothing but grief today trying to sync my carbs.......I have the ergo type gauge.......the 4th gauge crapped out.....no problem.....I’ll do 1-2, then 3-4 , then 1-4,,,,i was having a huge vacuum pull from carb 1 just making the gauge go crazy. Anyway after much time and many settings I thought I was good. Went in for dinner, the bike cooled off nd now it won’t start? What have I done........did I lean it out to much. Is there a factory number of turns on the adjusters I can make to get started again. Please help, thanks!

[Scott-(Altoona, PA)]

If you can, give Carl Leo a call.

[ekap1200]

If you can, give Carl Leo a call.

And if you can't reach him , please tell me you wrote down 1234 and how many turns ( cw or ccw ) you turned each screw and put them back from where you started and re-do . ( It may not have run well - but it ran ) Starting with the highest vacumm reading , lower that one to its mate , and note again how far you have turned the screw and its cw/cww direction you went...you may need to tweek the idle screw a bit, from time to time--. Don't do anything without documenting what you do.....You want to always get back to where you started,, until you get the hang of it----- on 4 carbs at once.
Do have a nice large fan on , in front of the bike if you feel that your not that quick at getting to the adjustment screw, and to avoid overheating ....Most well maintained / sync -ed set, you will find you never need more than a 1/4 turn at most. Where the heck are they going to go. at some point they were in sync- and they don't turn on their own.
Maybe there is something else going on here also.. Did you just buy this bike or it at some point was a well running machine you rode on?
Keep us posted on you trials and give us MORE DETAIL... we like detail as we are not there to see/touch/listen/ and smell.
Gene

[cranky]

.... L’d like to add, run a few tanks of Seafoam treated gas thru the
cards to clean ‘um out.... that by itself will make ‘ur scoot run
better.... my experience....

[cranky]

.... L’d like to add, run a few tanks of Seafoam treated gas thru the
carbs to clean ‘um out.... that by itself will make ‘ur scoot run
better.... my experience....

[ekap1200]

So , Jeff, how are you doing there ?