Honda-SOHC

Ill have to get back to you..! (back in the house now for the night) probably wont be able to get back to it til friday night....stand by!!

Many thanks for the reply back.!

Was in the garage earlier balancing (or at least trying to) balance my carbs....which is a whole other story (one day ill get "the knack") but so far it eludes me...

Anyway, last week, when i started balancing them (or trying not as well) - i ran out of battery....which did surprise me. Just as a bit of background my 400 has got a completely replaced wiring loom. Its got a Lithium battery and an aftermarket reg specifically for a lithium driven system.

Put it back on the optimate last week and fast forward today. Balancing didnt take as long (its as good as i can get it). So, as a last check i put a meter on the battery as the engine was running which was showing about 12.4-5 volts....if i hold the throttle open slightly it goes up to 12.6v.

Ive got a few reasonably modern bikes (one of which is a z1000 gen4) - i seem to remember that charging about 13 to 13.3 or so. Should the 400 charge at that rate or is 12.6 ish about the right voltage...wondering if its because its a smaller bike, older generator etc etc....

Thanks to anyone that takes a punt at it.

Andy

As above ive no idea what theyre called... (id like to order some) - the screws that you take out of the manifold to fit the vaccum guages - one of mine is a little mangled so id like to get a spare set...

Can anyone send me a linky? cheers.

Andy

Cheers sir - back in the house but back out later on! - thanks for the info!
Edit...righty had a chance to read through....im right up to the point of actually the adjustments....

after a couple of hours of twiddling....the only kind of constant i could get was (and id read this on the net somewhere) to get the tickover set to 3k and balance there...now at this point i had a reasonably good result but when i brought the ticker backdown to about 1/1.5k the levels were out...

Is that right?

I did used to thing that mine was reasonably tidy...now im not so sure after all the comments!

OK - if you think it can (and im trying to understand it) then ill get one on order....!

Edit - just to verify i can trash the relay i was using and utilize the one on the fuzebox.?

Sorry - should have made myself clearer.....

Its really all about the Horn....all the other stuff im fine with!

Currently ive got a Denali Soundbomb but, it requires a high current draw.... so, theres a Relay that is inbetween it and the horn...

The relay has 4 pins...2 for power and 2 coming from the original loom (they went to the original horn)

So how would those 4 pins used be connected to the new fuse box?

Ok - so the carbs are out at the moment....yesh - see the screw at the bottom of the float bowl....without putting it all back together yes the float bowl was filling up as the overflow pipe was leaking...what next!?

Edit - well i got it working....ive kinda got an idea of what it was but it may not be....

took the float bowl off (3rd time) took that little jet out behind the float bowl the long one with the two holes in it - but this time put a very thin bit of wire down there.....it didnt go all the way through (im not sure if it should or, shouldnt) and then re-assembled...i did also the other day add in the fuel additive stuff so not sure if that helped....

Anyway it started really quickly....literally a push and instant start...most responsive yet. Next would be for one of you guys (who ive met) just to listen to see if its needs further fettling!

Thanks to everyone that chipped in!