How to clean the motorcycle carburator - 1985 AMC American Motors Eagle

Verify your spark plug and wires are clean and connected and that your air filter is clean.. If it hasn't run in a while, your gasoline has likely dried up in the carburator and coated the inside with a "varnish" like finish of junk that needs to be cleaned so the inner parts move and gas can pass through the small holes as it should. You get a carburator kit of gaskets and take it apart and clean it out and put it back together with the new seals.

is fuel up to thatg point under pressure or not?

Here is the diagram for the 3.0 V6 engine which I assume you have.

Courtesy autozone.com

As i understand, all VTi´s had injected engines, but in case your particular model is carburated, my advice is: Take it to have it cleaned by a mechanic that knows carburetors. Have in mind that carburetors have a myriad of screws, jets and wires that might get lost or switched during reassembly. Furthermore, the jets, butterfly openings, floats and other devices require detailed, minute adjustments for proper functioning. All those adjustments are lost when disassembled for cleaning. Also, some rubber / plastic parts and seals will not withstand the acid bath, so a new kit must be included as well.

try cleaning carburator- take off breather-use spray carburator cleaner--CAUTION -its flameable!!

I would suspect there is dirt in the idle system, did you blow the jets and passages out with compressed air.

This is due to the throttle flap sticking within the throttle body. The throttle flap is operated by the accelerator cable which turns the semicircular control on the throttle body. Remove the air hose to get access to the throttle body. Use carburetor cleaner to clean out where the flap sits in the body. There'll be lots of black gunk to remove with cleaner on a clean cloth. Reassemble and no more sticking accelerator.

Try replacing the fuel filter. Mine was "chugging", stalling, and hard to start.

Make sure your tank is clean of debris. Could be the diaphram on the arm of carburator cover is not openening causing the carburator to freeze up and shut off. Make sure heat is getting to the carburator.

Hi There,

If your car was running good and suddently it became like this and getting then I think your car either having a carburator or fuel injection problem. If it is a carburator I sugess go to shop for carburator cleaning and check for leakage, if it is a fuel injection then replaced fuel filter and one of the fuel injection cleaning stuff in gas tank for cleaning those fuel injection......

KK