carb rebuild

Hell all, so I'm new to carburator adjustment and for the life of me I cAn figure out how to get this thing running right. I've got a 1971 CL175. I did a carb clean and rebuild, points gap adjustment, timing adjustment, and valve lash adjustment earlier this month. After doing all this, I've...

This is my first motorcycle, and I got it about 9 years ago. I'm generally a fan of the stock look, but my other vintage bikes are earlier (72 - 78) and the stock CM400C has cruiser accents that I personally don't care for, especially the stepped seat, shape of the side covers, and design of...

Hey y'all, just joined this community, happy to be apart of it. New to working on bikes but wanted to start somewhere and learn. So, my CM450E was working perfectly fine until I decided to refill it with some 91 Octane Gasoline. The bike was running smoothly back from the gas station until I...

I extracted a pilot jet out of a 1982 cm450 using screw extractor. It destroyed the threads I guess because the new pilot jets do not go deep into the carb hole anymore. Someone recommended retapping it because I probably destroyed the threads. The M6x0.75mm tap I bought does not fit at all in...

1979 CM400T carb rebuild- read stickies, looking for dummy version for some things. I've got the carbs torn down on the table and im going through stickies and how tos and just get confused on some longer threads. So here's the issues. Putting new stock jets in- how many turns? Main and...