If it has four carburetors in a straight line, you're in the right place. The base price of 675.00 dollars applies to any inline four whether it's a 70's era CB 500, 550, 650, etc., or an 80's CB 750, 900, 1100, Nighthawk, etc. It also applies to the Mikuni carbs on the various KZ models and the Keihin carbs on the Yamaha XS--any year any model.

The only exception is that I don't include the cost of air cutoffs or accelerator pumps on models so equipped. Often I'll find relatively new ones from an earlier failed attempt to resurrect the bike so I wait intil I can assess them firsthand to determine whether they're needed or not. Plus, my costs keep going up and are thus prone to change without warning. Right now they're 100 dollars for the whole kaboodle.

I also don't include the cost of new dust boots on the 70's CB750 models. Those are 95 dollars for the wole set, for the guy who wants a truly authentic look.

We're a busy shop and I only do motorcycle carburetors, every day all day. I have customers all over the world so expect a wait time of around 10-12 weeks to have them back. My son, expert technician that he is, is busy with college and another job, so most of the time it's only me. There aren't any shortcuts if you expect a perfect job and it just takes time. The one thing I always say to folks who ask when their carbs will be done is that I appreciate your patience--you won't be disappointed.



My service starts with a thorough evaluation and a completley transparent policy about what you might need; most sets usually don't need anything but "kits and cleaning" but if I find something serious I have lots of spare parts on hand. What I won't do is hit you with a bunch of add-ons. If I find a broken float post, a nozzle that needs to be drilled out, or a stripped thread that needs an insert I'll generally take care of it without you ever knowing. Obviously if it's something serious there will be an extra charge but I'm not known to overcharge for parts.

After we have determined that your set is restorable, we get to work. 

This includes:

• A 100% breakdown, to the very last jet and screw

• A non-caustic chemical cleaning done by hand of every single part (see below)

• Treatment of the core metal to make it look factory new

• Re-plating and/or polishing, as applicable, of all mounting brackets

• *Polishing or powder coating of all caps

• Re-assembly on a spotless workbench

• Pressurized fuel test and bench synchronization

Your carbs should come back to you ready to bolt on and run. Ovbiously there are times when you'll need to perform a final synchronization but they're very rare and it's an easy process. (See below)

HOWEVER

What goes into your carburetors is more important than making them pretty. 

Each rebuild includes:

• New Viton o-rings for every fuel, air and accelerator pump circuit.

• New float needles--Keyster, not chinese knockoff--new seats as needed
• Clearing of every passage and orifice with special attention to the smaller ones to ensure that they're absolutely clean.

• New Viton passage plugs, where applicable

• Repair/refurbishing of all jets, emulsion tubes, float seats and A/F screws, replacement as needed

• New fasteners throughout, either socket cap (zinc or stainless) or traditional phillips.

• New Viton float bowl gaskets

Synchronization

The principal symptoms of poor synchronization are slow or hesitant return to idle from revving. You'll also find that the idle will tend to rise uncontrollably as the bike warms up. This is assuming that there's no binding in the cables or grip, obviously.

What's happening is that the individual butterflies or slides are hanging a tiny bit more open or closed relative to the others and the carbs essentially wind up in a tug of war.

We synch on the bench with a constant rate vacuum (shop vac motor) but we can't replicate real-life dynamics. Valve clearances, cam timing, and/or compression-related issues all have an effect on vacuum so a final adjstment is sometimes needed. That said, in this business no news is good news so the lack of people calling with synch troubles suggests that we're doing something right.

Ultrasound

It might be fine for my wife's jewelry but I don't use it and in fact I'm against the practice for several reasons.

For one, it only cleans the grime off of things--and very well at that to be sure--but vibrating water doesn't circulate so by it's very definition it's not going to clear a blockage, especially when you consider how tiny some of the passages are. Maybe it can soften the crud that's causing a problem but the only way to do it right is the hard way: get in there with actual physical tools that will do the job without the risk damaging anything in the process. That's why I pull everything out, even the press-in jets.

This leads to my second complaint. I've seen carbs destroyed when jets were left in place and the ultrasound solvent wasn't rinsed out. Even something as seemingly mild as simple green, a favorite amongst practitioners, is corrosive enough to etch both aluminum and brass when it remains trapped in an internal cavity. I spend a lot of time making sure that there's nothing inside those passages that can come loose later on, or remain behind to erode a connection that needs to be fuel or air tight.

I'm sure that ultrasound is perfectly safe when used properly, but what's the point? Ultimately, at least as far as carburetors are concerned, it's totally unneccessary; plus which you'd be tempted to skip a crucial step believing that it's doing a job it's not actually doing.

So at best it's merely useless; at worst it's catastrophically destructive.