Bandit Alley
MODEL SPECIFIC => SUZUKI BANDIT 250 & 400 => Topic started by: Tainted-Meat on March 15, 2008, 04:27:59 PM
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:welcome:
just little old me here from Newcastle,
bought my bike from Hunters Motorcycles, use jo joe's for spares Westgate Road (the Hill you may know it as)
£800 98' (2nd generation) jap import, BLACK, standard, and with some 12 thou Km on the clocks, good tyres, needed fork seals and oil, and a little attention
but with that done i got back on the roads motorsmile
all i can say is consett get's real cold and real snowy real quick . . .
just thinking about all the wonderful things i can do with it
learnt a lot from the site and still learing more :Very Happy:
:bandit:
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Yeah im from the other end of the uk devon.
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how's the weather ?
(typical question)
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N.I :bigok:
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weather is fine at the moment hows upt north?
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well Mr bandit max from that lovly and warm devon place your lucks in,
IT'S BLOODY FREEZING ! ! !
however as long as i can keep the windows shut, the cats in, the missus on boil i'm sure i can cope,
now for the missus . . . :bouncy:
just wanting to do a bit with the bandit and get her purring in a perfect state of tune.
you doing much with your own or any plans ?
(and also wantin gto gte the bugger running as quick and as derestricted of any slowing downy bit as i can go)
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Im at the moment sorting new tyre. Cleaned carbs and new brake lines and pads.
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Hi! I'm up in lovely Aberdeen, not too rainy but feckin cold most of the time. Getting better recently though.
I'm in the process of getting my 400v road worthy....can't wait till I can get riding!
Btw why are you wearing a ATC beret? lol
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just a old pic, never attended air training though
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another one in the north (well just down the road in stockton) 98 b4 in bits in the shed still need a few bits to get it finished but getting there
Andy
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Hi guys, for those of you in the uk who are after a single seat cowl theres one on ebay.
keep it off the grass lads!!!
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Just to say, I'm from South London, I've got a 1200 K6.
Keith
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just anupdate, pulling carbs and when you pull the floats out it'd probs be best to haev some new seals for there, i got two in out no bothere but the other two were a little tight and there is no way them babys will go back
mabey if left for a couple of days but . . . just best to as i found out
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just to say it... you want those floats to be good and tight. the alternative is they leak and flood like mad. Some people use various bits of lube to get them to slide back in, though I can't comment on the advisability of that.
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could you expand a little on teh matter please, just describe so i know exactly the probs your talking about . . .
many thanks for the advice
Aid
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There are two little o-rings that go on the tubular parts of the float assembly. Of particular importance is the larger of the two, the one that is located on the part that holds the float valve. That float valve in conjunction with the float controls the amount of fuel that flows into the float bowl.
If that larger o-ring is broken or doesn't fit snugly into its orifice, then fuel will leak around it and into the float bowl causing flooding problems. It basically allows the fuel to bypass its proper path through the float valve.
So, it should be pretty snug when pressing it in there. This is a common problem on bandit 400's. EIther bad o-rings causing leakage and flooding, or bits of dreck getting into the float valve and holding it open causing flooding.
The other end, the smaller end, I don't know what that is frankly... choke pickup tube perhaps? It's probably not as critical as the first, though it should do its job of sealing as well.
hope that helps.
A
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ahh yes, the choke pickup oring is buggered
so many thanks and great advice