Just picked up a 2002 ST that had been sitting for a long time. And she is running rough. When I got her she wouldnt idle without the choke on full. As soon as I got her home I opened her up and replaced the air filter (really nasty with evidence of mice being present...) and found the idle adjust was completely unscrewed... Got that back and she now needs choke to start but will idle on her own after a little warm up. However, she still stumbles/surges as soon as the revs get above about 4k. I've run several tanks of gas with sea foam through her and there has been some improvement, but she is still not smooth.
My probelm, no garage space. Any repair I undertake is out in my parking lot... So to pull the carbs for a good cleaning just doesn't seem like a good idea.
Any suggestions? A better method for getting carb cleaner into teh cars without disassembling everything? I remember as a kid squirting Gumout into a car's air cleaner to some effect. Is that a reasonable thing to do with an ST?
By the way, my local Honda shop says to clean the carbs will be at least $800 (but first I had to tell them the bike was not fuel injected...). I don't have a lot of faith in them.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
BTW, the bike and I are in Bel Air, Md, if someone knows a shop that really knows ST's.
My probelm, no garage space. Any repair I undertake is out in my parking lot... So to pull the carbs for a good cleaning just doesn't seem like a good idea.
Any suggestions? A better method for getting carb cleaner into teh cars without disassembling everything? I remember as a kid squirting Gumout into a car's air cleaner to some effect. Is that a reasonable thing to do with an ST?
By the way, my local Honda shop says to clean the carbs will be at least $800 (but first I had to tell them the bike was not fuel injected...). I don't have a lot of faith in them.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
BTW, the bike and I are in Bel Air, Md, if someone knows a shop that really knows ST's.