Carburetor Rebuild Service

cowboyflyer

cowboyflyer

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Hello All,
Just wanted to let everyone know that I just got my carbs on my 98 ST1100 rebuilt and cleaned.
For those who just want to pull the carb and outsource them to someone else to rebuild this guy is the man!

Romax carburetor service out of Florida! I had found a post way back on him early on, but when it came time
to use the service, I could not find again on the forum! I remembered the name and ran across it on Ebay and gave him a call.
I spoke to a guy name Jim and winded up sending my carbs to him for rebuild. It took a little over a month. (he had a few ahead of me.)
During the process he kept in touch with me by txt and send photo's during the whole process.
Carb came back flow test and tuned, just bolt back on! So far I have put 500 miles with not problems.
I was going to rebuild them myself but just did not have the time! I am glad I made this choice.

I do not work for him or have any affiliation with Romax other than using his service!
I thought I would share this with others like me who struggle for months trying to find a carb service center that is reputable.
There was one service in TX that I found here on the forum but is no long in service.

Hope this helps,
S Lee
98 ST1100 Iron Butt!
 
cowboyflyer said:
No more backfiring when I let off the throttle
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There apparently are people who pay money to add 'backfiring' to their vehicles. I don't know that anybody does it for motorcycles but there are a lot of cars around there that seem modded to do it through ECM tuning and maybe other ways. Really annoying.

I went to various low-back pressure mufflers on my 750K4 and had to change the jetting to eliminate some backfiring on closing the throttle. Finally went back to the stock exhaust as the pockita-pockita sans backfire was the most pleasing sound. It was a shade or two better than the Paul Dunstall exhaust but quieter.
 
He did the carbs on my 2000 ST1100 as well. It was back in 2019 though, so I paid considerably less. I think it was maybe $300. I didn't have time as I was helping take care of my parents. I put the carbs on and did nothing. It has been flawless since. I haven't even bothered to sync the carbs. I know that would probably help some, but I think he did a great job.
 
The guy who sold me my older Honda shadow 1100 was a professional motorcycle wrench who owned his own shop . He told me that it might need jets, but he already cleaned the carburetor in an ultrasonic tank and put it back on, and didn’t wanna mess with it again because he had a bunch of paying customers’ work ahead of it. And this was his own little side project bike he was fixing up for a friend who needed a working bike so these guys could go riding together…. a friend who changed his mind and said he didn’t really want it after all.

He told me at the time of the sale,
“RIDE it around for a few weeks and tell me what you think . IF it needs jets, I’ll put them in no charge, you just pay for the parts.”

Well, after a month of learning to ride this thing despite its performance issues, I wanted him to change the JETS. But his shop is 110 miles from my house. So I pulled the carbs and mailed them to him in a box —for $28 shipping I think it was —and he did the work and sent them back to me. Everything was good since then.

So, mail order cleaning / tuning of a set of carburetors is actually a thing, and it seems to work.
 
ST Gui said:
After taking my carbs off my 750K4 a dozen times and fiddling with jets and needle valves and air filters I'd never do it again. All these other senior folks here who still wrench have my utmost admiration. I'll keep my wrench and driver turning to a superficial level.
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I rebuilt the carbs on plenty of bikes, but the carbs for my CX500 were split, with crossover tubes, so I bought a book, $35 , step by step guide, they came out perfect. And like my ST, I bolted them in, and went riding and never thought about them again. But I oddly find it relaxing.
 
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