IF it comes to that. there is an EXCELLENT video on youtube by steve saunders. i think he is showing a 1200 but the 1100 is virtually the same.

find an old guy in the neighbourhood who has been collecting fasteners for 40+ years .
bring pale ale.

lovely bike. one of my favourite colour schemes.

thanks for the replies ... yes, the (now) oversized hole is in the base of the carb throat, you can see it clearly in the first pic and you can also see the shiny throttle plate peeking through behind it. the puck isn't going to be an issue; the PO did what i consider to be an acceptable repair by f...

thanks for all the feedback , maz. i am still concerned about that big hole though. the 3 tiny holes don't appear to be access portals for the factory to drill other internal passageways. looking at it, they are right where the throttle plate touches the carb body when the throttle is closed, and my...

well, we were right with the "stuck puck" hypothesis. he actually drilled through 2 of them (i found the damaged ones in a separate container). on carb #2 he obviously went too far but on the other puck he went all the way through the puck but didn't contact the carb body itself. the throt...

ok . i don't understand what those 3 tiny holes are for.

that was my guess, too, but since the hole was so clean and even, i wanted to make sure that it wasn't factory. wouldn't make any sense for honda to make it that way but one never knows. now i gotta figure out what to do there. i am thinking fill it with lead and smooth it off as best i can.

i know nothing about these carbs other than i was told they are 1978 gl1000 ...

look at the bores where the aluminum puck belongs ... in carb #2, (the first pic) one of the three holes is much larger than it is in the other 3 carbs.
is this normal ?

"Everything else looks amazing" ... then yes. offering $400 would be reasonable but if the ad says "firm", be prepared to pay it. in my area at least, these bikes are getting harder to find.

actually, ignore that last sentence; it wouldn't cause the problem you are describing.

you will probably do better to start your own thread in the gl1200 section. there, people can follow along with your progress. my first move would be to check the part numbers of those emgo filters to see whether the PO did, in fact, order the right ones. removing the bottom gasket isn't such a good...

" ...1 & 3 are synced at about 15; 2 & 4 at about 40. Getting 4 closer to 3 worsens the problem ... "

this is nasty. a proper compression test can sometimes avoid a lot of tail-chasing. i would start there to confirm healthy engine internals.

from the pics, that looks like a nice bike.
if they are selling over there for anything near 3500 pounds / $6100CDN /$4800USD a person would do well importing them as a part-time money-making hobby.

i don't know if a dct works any differently, but with a cvt, when the bike is on the center-stand the rear wheel spins weakly at idle; when the rear wheel is on the ground, the weight of the bike alone prevents any forward creep at idle.

i bought a 650 burgman late last summer. i have only ridden it a dozen times or so, but if i had a gl1100 or gl1200 with a cvt transmission i wouldn't stop smiling.

yes, i am a member there so, will do. just want to list them for sale and don't want to claim that they fit something they don't.

i have 3 goldwing fuel tanks in the basement and 1 outside in a parts bike. as usual, i neglected to mark the ones that are "in stock" . partzilla shows different part numbers for the gl1000 and gl1100. are they interchangeable ?

glad you got it sorted out.
pretty cool image of the spark too !

it's supposed to click, but clicking doesn't always mean that it's actually passing enough current to spin the engine. you are going to need a multimeter or at least a 12v test light to make your checks. whatever you do, DON'T buy an $8.00 ebay solenoid. it's $8.00 in the toilet and 1 solenoid in th...

no expert here, but cylinder 1 is rich or mis-firing ... the other 3 are probably not really as lean as the picture makes them appear so i wouldnt worry about them for now.

you say that you are not mechanically inclined but want to learn. that being the case, i would say that you ARE mechanically inclined, just inexperienced, perhaps ? no worries, we all started with an oil or spark plug change and took off from there. oil leaks can fool you. clean off all traces of oi...

"they sell claiming fitment for incorrect applications" ... i was close to ordering some front turn signal mounts from them despite their horrible reputation because nobody else seemed to have them (at least not for what i considered a reasonable price). a little searching revealed that wh...

"stored 3 years and neglected by it's owner" ... this means you need to go through the full resurrection process. the first step is to change the timing belt. this is an intereference engine; you don't want to roll the dice here. to do a proper compression test you need top open the thrott...

i have no audio on this computer.
until a real trouble-shooter comes along lets get the easy one out of the way ... is your kill switch in the "run" position ?