I have bought a 1981 Yamaha XJ550H Maxim The Idle was 4000Rpms, Since, I have replaced the Intakes, and Have rebuilt the carbs with new slide diaphragms and put new carb kits in the carbs, I have bought a Clymer and Yamaha XJ550H/RH manual, but there is no pilot screw settings in the books to set the carbs. the person I bought the bike from said he worked on the carbs and I found that the pilot screws were 1/4 turn out on 3 of the carbs and 1 and 1/2 on the fourth, where should I set them now that I've rebuilt the carbs ?

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Posted on Jan 02, 2017

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Hi Walker14,

You have to sync thecarbs and also you will have to reset the air-fuel mixture screws.
One of the carburators should be factory adjusted, I dont wn a kawasaki but I own a YAMAHA SECA XJ750R and thro it I am sharing my experince.
Once you have located the factory preadjusted carburator you can thn set the others to its specs. I use the feeler gauge to do for my bikes carburators and it works fine.
With regards to the mixture screw..... get the all in tightened but slowly aas to not damage the pin end of it!.
Start the bike and get it to normal running temp and thn set the screws 2 and half turns out...you may need to set your idling speed before you begin this setting of the mixture screws, you prolly will hveto go higher on revs or vicecersa ....onc eyou are at the mixture screws and adjusting them , you will surely note the differenc ein sound of he bike an its idling ..
Hope this will help.


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Posted on Feb 02, 2009

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I had the same problem, Turns out that my shims were finished, replace the chims and check clearences.

Posted on Mar 12, 2009

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sounds like the main jets are partly pluged, you must remve all brass jets and seats including needle jet and its slide soak in carb cleaner and blow out with compressed air only.. hold up to bright light to verify if all are clean. jim

Posted on Mar 29, 2009

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clean all jets in carb.idle jet is a long jet with 6 to 8 holes no the side & 1 on the bottom.

Posted on Apr 23, 2009

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You can fail emissions on a bike in arizona ? Wow i thought california was bad....anyhoo let's get to your concerns....All those srews should be very close to the same setting....rule of thumb is start at 1and1/2 turns out on each screw, almost any gasoline engine will run at these setting then you can fine tune from there.....no wonder you had bad idling problems...Good luck to you friend....Tim

Posted on May 12, 2009