UPDATE: It's true- the members of this club are great people! A simple adjustment to the dwell idle fixed the problem; that'll teach me to turn the sucker more than one full turn! Many thanks to all of you expecially Hix and Ralph, both of whom really made themselves available to help me. Thanks for all the input!
See you all soon; stay safe!
Hi everyone. I bought my first bike last week and am real glad to have found this site and all of you! I got a 98 Kawasaki 500R with 2000 miles on it and I've messed up the idle adjust. This is what happened: I took a ride from Denver to GOlden on 32nd ave out of Highlands and winding up right behind the Coors factory in Golden. I took this ride twice, and both times, once I arrived in Golden, my warm engine started stalling at idle. So last night, I really messed up. What I did was stick my hand underneath my bike and played with the idle adjust. I turned it a lot in one direction, and nothing happened. So I started up the bike and tried turning it in the other direction, still, the hot engine would not idle, but instead just kind of died, sounding like it was choking for air. I rode back to denver, and the engine was trying to die inbetween shifts! I had to throttle her all the way home, and now I have no idea how to get the ide adjust back to where it should be. Can anyone tell me- should idle adjust be done when the bike is cold or hot, any ideas for fixing the problem I've created for myself, and why everytime I get to Golden and hit a red light, I have to keep the idle up by slight throttle twist instead of just having her sit tight at around 1100 rpms in a nice idle? Also, I installed the hotter version of the sparkplugs last week along with a new air filter and oil and oil filter change. I didn't ask for these 'hotter' plugs, they were given to me by the guy working the parts department at the E COlfax Excel. Can anyone tell me what the consequences are of putting in these plugs instead of the standard ones, and if the standard ones are preferable, and might this be part of my idle problem? I was given D8EA plugs when D9EA are the standard ones...
Thanks in advance....