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1999 Rotax 380 Fan Touring

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#1 ·
Hey guys, anyone familiar with this machine? 1999 Rotax 380 Fan Touring with 360 miles on it my brother left gas in for 2 years. In excellent shape but of course gas went bad, Long story short pulled off carbs and rebuilt them and set volume and mixture screws to previous settings before disassembled. Started right up seemed to have good throttle response but weather was mild. Now in minus degree weather it starts when choked but stalls with small throttle input. If I choke it before it stalls and then then close it and rev it it will go pretty good and when it gets above the idle circuit runs like a banshee. Back off throttle at stop and it stalls unless I choke if for a second. There appears to be a vacuum nipple on each carb covered by rubber boots but 2 different gauges have shown no vacuum when hooked up to them. Maybe clogged? Does anyone know the initial settings for the mixture screws I can start with and then try to dial it in? Any tips on how to adjust these babies? I believe it's getting enough gas and it appears the low speed circuit is the problem. As it's 10 years old there's not much info I can find. I am wondering if there are special gauges I need to get a vacuum reading and so forth. I have some pix of the carbs if that would help.
Much Obliged.
 
#5 ·
mxzx10002 Hey now, did all that, flushed tank and ran fresh gas through. Carbs were spotless. I have since learned that what I thought were vacuum connections were "primer ports" so spent a lot of time doing stupid stuff. I think the other post is on the money, wrong settings. Finally got a manual on CD and I see what I have to do. Thanks though, I thought that initiall
 
#3 ·
if the engine is warm, and you choke it at idle and the rpm goes up it would mean that you low circuit is too lean(either from mixture, vacuum leak, etc) Then engine was starving for fuel at idle and when you choke it you are giving it extra fuel. Not sure about the vacuum ports. There are several online sources on how to balance your carbs. Just enter "carb sync" in any search engine.
 
#7 ·
farbynddrvn, your post makes the most sense and it's what I am aiming for. Had a hard time finding specs for initial settings that HiOctane pointed out and I think you are right. I set it up when it was warm out and now that we had a 15 degrees below business I never dialed it in. Back to square one. Pull carbs, use drill bit to set idle screw slide height, re-tension springs on air volume screws so they don't vibrate loose from 1 1/4" turns out. The vacuum connections are not connections at all. They are "primer ports" for starting fluid. Have little capped boots on them , sure fooled me what with my Ninja and all. Shop manual says you do it all with a tach and cable adjustments. Thanks to all you guys for your help. I'll know Prez weekend. Be nice if it's in at least the 20's, no heated space.