'87 FJ1200 IDLE

[scarylarry]

Guys,
is your idle simply on/off or do you have to adjust it incrementaly as it warms up?
i have to make small adjustments as it warms up and is seems to be a pain in the azz.
other than that, it runs great.

thanks,
larry

[Flynt]

Guys,
is your idle simply on/off or do you have to adjust it incrementaly as it warms up?
i have to make small adjustments as it warms up and is seems to be a pain in the azz.
other than that, it runs great.

thanks,
larry

If you mean the choke, it is on 3 clicks to start, drop to two in about 5 sec when the idle speed rises, then ride off and close fully once at 5mph or so.  I have about 1 mile to my first stop sign and am idling at about 1000 rpm by then without choke.  Within a couple more minutes it is idling at 1100 and stable there.

Frank

[FJTillDeath]

Well you could play with the idle mixture skrew set it where desired when the bike is hot. Otherwise your carbs might need a cleaning.

My bike used to take ages to idle without me feeding it gas, then got the carbs cleaned and synced and idles within a minute without the choke

[scarylarry]

sorry, i meant the choke.

at the beginning of the summer, i took the carbs apart and cleaned them really well.
it ran the best it ever has, but this problem crept in there.  maybe they just need to be synched,
i was too lazy to do it then and i just never got around to doing it.