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MY 1980 CBX was BY FAR the worst POS i've owned.
Nightmare to work on
Sorry to hear you had difficulties working on it.
What particular part of working on it did you find being a "hightmare" ?
it sat in storage for a few years while i was overseas, crudded up carbs when i got back..
Sorry, no offence .... but if the owner neglects his machine to a point where he leaves it
for
several years with gas in the carbs, it's hardly due to "bad engine design",
or the machine being a "..BY FAR the worst POS.." if the carbs crud up.
..synching carbs was a pita...
Yeah it's somewhat challenging to synch six carbs, but by no means is it a '
pita'
or a '
nightmare', and certainly no difficulties in it caused by any 'bad engine design'.
There really isn't much to it, just takes a bit of patience, just like it does with
any other multi-carb engine.
Remove tank
Hook up longer fuel tube
Hook up vacuum gauge and adaptors
Run at idle and adjust so differencies in vacuum readings are within 1,6 inHg
using ( the non-adjustable ) cylinder 4, as fix point.
Recheck
...and recheck idle speed........job done
Again: no offence, but if one find
that to be a "nightmare"
on this "pos", "bad engine design'ed" machine it is due to
the self-inflicted crud'ing of the carbs not being adressed properly.