This set was on the shelves since the bike was parted and engine sold in 2004, sort of lost behind 18 other Goldwing Carb racks that I stuffed away for future review. In that 2025 is the Carb-year for StraightWings, and I?ve done the GL1000 carburetors and the GL1100 carburetors: I finally got to the back of the shelves. This rack went on the bench last night. Proper cleaning to rid it of the rodent stench and get the dust off, then when this was ?opened? I nearly fell over. Man, this rack is just plain outstanding. A few pics were taken of the underside of the plenum and the interior before anything else was done. Incredibly nice set on the interior: clean as a whistle.
The only jets in this complete rack that needed a bit of cleaning were the needles, which had minor varnish.Regardless, all jets were removed, soaked in Honda carburetor cleaner overnight. The air cut-off was dis-assembled to find that it is as supple and clean as if this were running yesterday.
The vacuum diaphragms were removed, checked, cleaned: also nice and supple, no damage at all.
All air and fuel passages cleaned, high-pressure aired, done again twice more.
Float fuel jets removed, cleaned. Fuel valves checked as excellent.
Re-assembled, floats meticulously set at 7.5mm. All throttle linkage lubricated and checked. Fuel enrichment valves cleaned, checked, lubricated, as well as the choke linkage. CV caps polished to check for damage: all good. Plenum cover cleaned, gasket cleaned, replaced. The barn-rodents had a fine time around the edge of the air-filter base opening, but no harm done to prevent proper mechanical operation. A couple of lightly tarnished plenum-top screws required cleaning, so I did them all.
This set will require adjustment to your bike, as they all do. The pilot jets were cleaned, new o-rings applied, they are set to 2 turns out. They will need to be adjusted to within 40 mm (1.6 in) HG of each other, but 10mm is better if you are into fiddling longer to set them up.
in general: you will go a long way, a long time, and perhaps not again find a set as nice as these. I would have to say that it is the nicest operational set of GL1200 carbs that I have seen for many, many years. Load them, and ride safe.
USA REQUIRED TARIFFS ARE INCLUDED IN THE PRICE, NO duties due at delivery
PLEASE NOTE: Regardless whether the part attracts a tariff or not, we have REDUCED ALL PRICING, so there are some extremely good deals happening.The USA Admin requires a postal shipment tariff-tax, a customs brokerage fee, and a per item Customs document admin fee.
The costs, when they apply, must paid BY THE SELLER ON BEHALF OF THE BUYER, on ALL goods shipped into the USA. It is USA law, and is effectively a tax on all products bought from outside the USA, whether those products were made in the USA or not.
OTHERS: PLEASE NOTE :
All customers outside of the USA who are buying "TARIFFED" items on the Straightwings site WILL BE REFUNDED 10% of the ITEM PRICE to remove those added costs, after purchase, based on your country which is not the USA.
Just buy what you need and remind us to refund the amount as above.
It is a very expensive and time-costly effort for us to help all *Goldwingers* to obtain often-rare parts when you are in the USA, but as well to be fair to all the buyers in outside the USA who are not subjected to that tariff/tax: but I will NOT desert my USA clients. I have worked hard for 25 years to make available quality parts which aid Goldwing riders world wide. While the tariffs are most unfortunate between neighbours, the parts we sell are still great parts, properly assessed, at the fairest price possible. I hope all my USA customers understand this, and continue to patronize StraightWings, a premier Goldwing quality used parts site.
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