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Its in great shape, I got a rebuild kit for the carb with it which I installed along with a new battery.
My only issue is its running super rich, I have to mess with the idle screw to get it to start and the choke just kills it.....I put the needle clip in the middle, im wondering if I need to adjust that or if it could be a timing issue and not a carb issue?
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The carb is probably the issue. have you checked the float level? Maybe the fuel needle is leaking...
Jim
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1974 Kawasaki H1
1976 Kawasaki KZ400
1979 Yamaha XS650 cafe'
2001 KZ1000P
2001 Yamaha YZ426
1981 Honda XR200 stroked in an '89 CR125 chassis
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1967 Triumph GT6
1976 Bronco
"If you didn't build it, it's not really yours"
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ThatGPzGuy wrote: Nice! You don't see very many of the KZ200s. I'd love to have one so I can say I have a Kawasaki in every engine category: Single, twin, triple and Four............
Don't forget the 6 (KZ1300). Ed
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I have a manual id need to reference as far as float level but I know when I took the bowl off to check that the drain wasn't clogged it seemed very full.
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I am all in with thatgpzguy., just a little carburetor love and you will be fine.
/Anders
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When I was 17 I owned a BSA and rode it across town (Baltimore) to school every day. Along the way I passed a Baltimore City facility where they kept dump trucks used to spread salt on snowy roads. In the Winter the street in front of the entrance to the facility's yard always had a liberal dose of salt on it just from spillage even when there was no snow. One day as I approached that part of the road a big dump truck pulled out and crossed into my lane. I hit the brakes, but because of the salty road the bike didn't stop. I hit the beam under the truck's tailgate dead center with my helmeted head. The bike kept going until the front tire hit the truck's differential. As the bike traveled forward under me (with my helmeted head pinned firmly to the back of the truck) I was pushed off the back of the bike. I was stunned and nearly unconscious for a few seconds, but I was not seriously injured.
If that bike had a sissy bar on it the sissy bar would have hit me in the back and pushed me into the truck with the full momentum of the bike as the bike continued to travel forward. I suspect that would have caused serious injury; possibly a broken neck. That accident may have been unusual and/or atypical, but it convinced me not to ever want a sissy bar or other backrest on a bike. Ed
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I stood up and got off it as it happened and flipped into a barrow ditch... made it out OK.
Not so sure I could have done that with a sissy bar.
Safety aside....
I never ride solo with my sissy bar installed, they are just ugly on UJMs.... but my wife loves to go on "rides" with me and allows me ridiculous latitude with respect to riding anytime I want and is spooked without one (plus she falls asleep sometimes... :ohmy: ).... etc.... so I was forced to pull my grab bar and buy/install a luggage rack/sissy bar combo that satisfies us both. That was 36 years ago.
I just yank it off every time I go solo.
Bruce
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For safety a Merc 560 or a Hummer is in place, why not wait a bit until you take the little champ for a ride? My best buddy's daughter had the bad habit of falling asleep while riding home from school on his Beemer GS1200, he still talks about it. . . . .
ps. I sincerely hope you are sinking a CB 750 engine in the Flintstone racer
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