The Carby

Just a quick note for people who are stuck with the Suzuki RE-5 Carb and adjusting the cables properly. Here are some good tips:

• Make sure its CLEAN, I mean ultrasonically cleaned. all the jets etc etc.!! (cannot stress this enough.)
• Make sure there is no bits missing in the carb (alot of people forget the little needle)
• check the float gasket (black rubber one) for old age. If this gasket leaks you bike will run crap.
• Make sure the cables are well lubed.
• All the adjusters are out. Metering oil, port valve, throttle, and throttle block.

Now I found a good way to adjust the carby without the use of the angle tool. (You can use it if you have one). (This tip worked for me and i stole it from another guy on the RE-5 mailing list)

Firstly get another person. Now take off the fan on the right hand side and take off the port valve cover and also take off the horn intake so you can see the inside of the carby.

Now with the help of your friend get them to pull the throttle completely open. and adjust the carby pull cable so the primary butterfly opens completely. (This adjusts full throttle.) once you are done get them to shine a flashlight at the secondary limiter plate (its really easy to see through were the fan was.

Tell them to turn the throttle slowly and stop when the limiter plate starts to move.
At this point you have to adjust the port valve to start opening as well. Adjust the port valve so at this point its touching the second lever on the port valve.

This should get you into the right direction into clearing the bucking and all that between the 3.2 - 4k range.

You might still need to adjust the port valve a little to get it perfect.

I should also mention that its important that you have the mixture screw perfect as well.

Some people say 3/4 turns out from botteming out is a good start and go from there (some people have success at 1-1.5 turns).

Hope this helps anyone out.

I will keep posting more of the restore pics when I get time. I just wanted to share my experiance with getting the RE-5 carb perfect.