If you had the slides out of the carbs, you could have put the left slide in the right carb and vice-versa. Check to see if the cutaways at the bottom of the slides are facing the air cleaners.
Most common is slides in the carbs backwards (flipped sides). Either that or an air leak between the carb and the head.
Check that the carbs are attached to the manifold and the head with no air leaks. Easy test is put to the choke on and see if the revs remain high. If they do you have a leak.
The cutaways are facing the air cleaner, I'll try exchanging the slide's though.
If the cutaways are actually facing the air cleaners, then that isn't the problem and you will create one if you switch sides with them. Check the splitter junction box under the tank, the upper part of the cable may have gotten pulled out of the housing.
If they’re facing out that’s not the issue then. It’s either stuck slide or air leak.
I lied, I did have the slides in wrong. I exchanged them and its a little better, but still not getting the rpm's down to where they should be.
I had the slides in wrong and exchanged them and its a little better but still to high rpm.
Make sure that little splitter is seated correctly like @ancientdad pointed out. One or both can pop out and get hung up while you’re adjusting everything. Those slides look like they’re still not seating all the way.
I think I may have found the issue. The cables are fine at the splitter, but to length them I removed the lock nut on the cable adjuster on top of the carb and it seems to be the answer, had it running at a decent idle, just need to do some fine tuning yet and hopefully problem solved.
No, it wasn't in one of those sets. I bought it from 4into1 and the quality of the cable is pretty good, the inner cable should just have been 1/4" longer. I thank you guys for the slide exchange heads up, it's something I should have caught. I think with the adjuster lock nut deletion I mentioned, I have gained enough length to remedy the problem.
