newbie help please!

[stevethegas]

hi all just bought a 97 gtx and having plenty of fun on it, but i have a couple of issues, first being the ski is differcult to start and and there is a 2-3 second lagg from when i pull the throttle to it actually going. the person who serviced the ski and looked at the carbs first of all said the carbs were "hanging " inside and cleaned them (no parts were replaced) mentioned it could be the high speed jets, but they are seized in and missing the caps that only allow 1/4 turn adjustment anybody have any thoughts ? could these two faults be related ?

 

[Bills86e]

Check your service manual, The lows are one turn out, the highs are mag-0, pto-1/2, on that 787. Hard starting
usually is excessive rotary valve clearance. The manual has the directions for measureing the clearance. I think
re-machineing the RV cover is about 50 bucs (US) to bring back to spec.

 

[Minnetonka4me]

Hard starting...esp when the machine is warm is usually due to bad needles and seats. If the adjusters are corroaded, I wonder what else is wrong with those carbs.