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Like the title says, this is the fourth V-Max I've owned in my life. It's a 1993. I've nailed the throttle a few times and it feels much more stable than the 1999 I just sold. Strange. Anyway, I'm doing the basics with limited funds. I've purchased: - New clutch disk set and gasket ordered, but...

Long story short, I’ve been riding for over 30 years and never had or wanted a loud bike. In fact I’ve never even had a bike with an aftermarket can, including the four Vmaxes I’ve owned. That said, I’ve been looking at systems for my 98. Before I dive into this I was wondering what kind of...

So i have made the home made sync tool and sucsessfully set the carb sync pretty close . Now my question is how do Correctly set the A/F screw settings? is it simply by ear or for best RPM? they are preset at 2.5 turns out just at a starting point right now. bike runs pretty good but im guessing...

I found this info in one of Mark's old posts. Great stuff here. I was curious though....Somewhere, I can't remember where, I saw a whole page of info, very similar to this, dedicated to carb tuning that explained how to test the main, needle, pilots, what rpms do what, when they overlap, and...

Ok this might be really basic but when you guys talk about re-jetting are you talking about the Main jet (number 9 in service manual schematic), Pilot jet in the Jet block (number 13), Pilot Air Jet #1 (number 18) or the Pilot Air Jet #2 (number 20), or do all of them get changed? I've been...