Posted by Bruce Clarke on September 21, 1999 at 00:08:25:
In Reply to: Re: Slight leak from head gasket - how much $ to fix? posted by Linnette on September 19, 1999 at 20:46:41:
Posted by Linnette on September 19, 1999 at
>I found my 97 leaking, then it started missing
>at speeds over 30, then I thought I better get
>it worked on, when I started up and got into
>second gear, it backfired and missed like crazy.
>I managed to get it to the shop. Now they tell
>me I need the carberator re built. The
>crbeurator rebuild is about $90. It only has
>100 miles on it.
Rebuilt or cleaned? If it is only $90, I would suspect the carb is fouled up and needs to be cleaned. With only 1300 miles on a two year old motorcycle, it could be the motorcycle was in storage and had old dirty gasoline sitting in the tank, or that old gasoline had dired up and made the carb all gummy. Please provide me with more details as to exactly what they said needed to be done and I can answer better.