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1eye

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Hi everyone I am farely new to riding. Just bought a 2002 Suzuki SV650s with about 40 000km.
Its been sitting for a few months, and I finally turned her on.. the idle was/is very high (around 3000) and everytime I turn her off there's a HUGE backfire POP.
It had a liiiitle bit of old gas so I ran some of it out and added some fresh gas.

Im going to try and turn her on this weekend and let it idle for some time and play with the idle adjuster to tone the idle down (hopefully doesnt start dying under 2000rpm)

but if it doesnt work I think I will need to do a full carburator clean and checkup etc...
Anyone know of any good places that wont charge me up the ***** and have great friendly service?
Pro6? Parkerbros? Kahuna?
thx for any advice or help!!
 
Rocket Motorcycle are a great bunch of guys. I was in there the other day and they had a 1st gen SV on the bench.
 
i have the same problem when i first got my bike last July. It sat as well for some time. I was advice to use some carb cleaner. So far it's working for me any way, the back fire has gone down to almost nothing, but still there. I priced around for carb cleaning, and they go around $450 and up. So i did it myself. I'm new to riding as well.
 
Nice Rome, how was the experience of taking out the carb and cleaning it yourself? Was it fairly simple? I am not too mechanically inclined but I guess Im going to do it because theres no way I am paying hundreds of dollars like that lol...

What do you mean by carb cleaner? Something like seafoam? Thx guys!

Gna top her off with some v power to get rid of the old dirty gas and ride it through the power range a bit... see if it helps any .. I fear the carb clean willl be necessary... A carb clean/overhaul is basically take the whole carb out, dissasemble clean the jets and put back? what do you guys usually use to clean everything with?
 
Use actual carb cleaner (that's what it's called) not seafoam when tearing it apart. Carb cleaner is more agressive and gets better results for less money. Wear nitrile gloves or the carb cleaner will turn your hands white (not permanent damage, but your skin and carb cleaner are not friends). Find a service manual or youtube video or walkthrough of someone tearing apart the sv650 carbs, all of the above are probably available as it's such a common bike. The most important thing is to use tools that fit properly and don't force anything. The screws exposed to the outside can sometimes be quite stuck, but everything inside the carb should be reasonably easy to move.

You could try seafoam mixed with the gas to see if that helps (cheap and quick), but a full teardown is obviously more thorough.
 
what i did with mine is, spray the carb with carb cleaner with bike running. I also filled my tank with a higher octane gas ( Vpwer from shell or a 94 octane from Petrocan) as GreyGhost said seafoam seems to have a good review, they have both the spray and the gas additive. I also made sure i rode my bike after doing all of this. Just to burn out what i put on the carb, I don't think just running will work, i did that on early part and all idid was foul up my plugs.
I've done this multiple times already, and so far the results are positive. Good luck
and by the way i have not gone as far as carb teardown yet, cause what i'm doing so far works.
 
Hi 1Eye, Don't forget to do the easy thing first. Your bike has 40k. that means that it must of been working OK for most of the time.
If possible I ushually don't recomend it for a long period, try If possible to spray some carb cleanner into the carbs in burstes as the motor is reving up and down by you (or get help) (not to high) The trick is to maybe get some varnishing out. (the motor should be warm.) I also like to use WD-40 after sprayed into the carbs in the same manner, it burns nice it's a safe clean
and it lubes. Check the odvious Is you air filter clean? does it need to be replaced or cleaned., are you intake manifolds seated solid.
Try spraying some WD-40 around your carbs while your engine is idling (NOT IN AROUND) if your idle increases you may have a manifold leak.
Of course with those KMS on the machine a teardown would not hurt. Good luck.
 
Would Seafoam work in this type of application? I have heard good things about it, smoothed out my idle a bit after 2 tanks.
 
I had some success with WYNN'S carb cleaner on a carbed bike I used to have. It comes in a can, I got it at CT. Might be worth a try to get you through the rest of the season.
 
if none of these other ideas work and the bike has been sitting for awhile you will have to open the carbs to clean the pilot circut just be carefull of the forward choke cable. you will also have to syc the carbs, special tools needed here.
 
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