'98 Honda Valkyrie - Carbs finished & installed! Did we fix it? Video #2 

I saw only one of those conversions on a GL1000, maybe it was yours I don't know, here in Florida on a Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club event, probably 10 years ago up in Ocala. The guy popped the fake tank cover off and I was like, woah.... no kidding. It ran perfectly and sounded great. Frankly, I'd love to try that mod someday. Cheers.

@@MotoRestoFL I did all this back in 1995 actually, before the internet and 3D printers were a real thing around here. (I'm in N.M. btw) The design was fairly simple except for working out how to keep the runners on the OUTSIDE of the manifold box to alleviate any restrictions or weird flow characteristics. I made the lower part and sides of the box in one piece, out of 1/8" steel, and drilled the holes while it was still flat so that they were actually a little below the bottom corner of the box when it was folded up. There were some weird compound angles on the runners that took a lot of filing and fitting, until I could actually tack them in on the bike, and then removed the whole assembly to finish welding it. I drilled the top plate for the carb inlets and mounting bolts, and welded nuts underneath for the mounting bolts before I welded the top plate onto the box. I also made a custom throttle cable eccentric for the Weber throttle shaft, so I could use the double throttle cables and a fairly light return spring, and not worry about it getting stuck open. It actually was much easier to twist than with the stock GL 'jungle gym' throttle linkage!🤣 Overall, I think I only spent about a week designing and fitting everything before I welded it all together. I was really impressed with how well it ran afterwards, and once I fine tuned the jetting, it ran even better! I rarely had to get into the 'secondaries' on the Weber 2 bbl. to get into traffic or whatever, but you definitely knew there was something different under that fake gas tank with the howl from that Weber, when you grabbed a handful!😄👍👍

I get nightmares from that bike. Good luck. :)

That makes sense. All the others I did I believe were +97

Thanks, the other day on this old lawn tractor I bought, there may have been a high-velocity flashlight launch episode. Maybe. lol

Most of the time they work great. But I gotta go with what the testing shows at the time of the work being performed. It’s the only metric I have to go off.

@@MotoRestoFL cool. Really like what you do. I've been looking for a "barn find" valkerie for a project. Does anyone sell the bearings for the linkage?

@@fattkaw I only did a Quick Look but found none. I’m sure Rich at red eye knows the bearing numbers and sizes.

It's a reference test so that's probably good. Switch out to a vacuum pump and try that direction. If they seal under vacuum 100%, which is what I'd expect, dun worry bout it as they say in Jersey. Cheers.

Tank petcock is high enough to provide gravity feed.

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I can't speak on the Wings, I've never worked on one. As for the first part of your question, it's complicated. Not the answer, but the setup. I have a hard time describing this sometimes, but any multi-cylinder engine which is carbureted must be treated with the concept that the carbs are Precision Fuel Metering Devices. Consider the challenges of the engineers on later units. The have to walk a very fine line between performance, balance, fuel economy and EPA standards for USA bikes. Thus, they operate on a thin line of air -- fuel -- ignition -- timing -- valves, etc. Carbs really need to be 100% spot-on in order to be at the place the imagineers designed the ENTIRE system. Valve clearance, compression, ignition voltage, it all plays a role. Extricating everything else and assuming it's nominal, I treat carbs like I said, as precise fuel metering devices. As such, I deal with them very... precisely. Cheers.

@@MotoRestoFL THANK YOU VERY MUCH sir for your detailed reply. Very Much APPRECIATED. Thank You. Hav a gd 1 !!

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