My lovely XL600R, still giving me grief. Hard starting and stalling. I've had the carbs out twice this spring, getting pretty good at it. I've replaced the pilot screw, the tip on the old one was bent and the oring shot. After that it started on the third kick, but the setting was way out of wack with the screw 2 turns out. Finally got the idle to settle and the screw seemingly to the right spot which was another couple of turns out. Was idling for a bit, then it just died. Started right up again, held the idle for another couple minutes then died. I chucked the plate on it and ran it around the neighbourhood a couple times. Felt kind of slushy like it was overfuelled. Got it home, turned it off. Put the screw in a turn (leaner) and couldn't get it to start. Turned the screw out a turn it started but would die after about 5 seconds and then be hard to start. I have a new theory, I need to go to a larger pilot jet so I can turn the pilot screw in more. The pilot screw is so far out that a quarter turn goes from too lean to too rich. The screw has a couple shoulders on it, the specs say any where from 1.5 to 3 turns out, it's at least 5 turns out to start. Anyone want to chime in on this theory. Of course that last time the carbs were out, I didn't check the size of the pilot jet, I think I can get to it with the carbs still in the bike.
