As promised, pictures

Here she is with the seat removed. It was not as easy as I thought it would be. I had to cut away the foam padding that serves as the seat cushion to get at the bolts which secure the seat to the frame. Fortunately I was able to take a blade and flatly cut the foam from the surface without damaging it. Should be easy to resecure it. It took me about an hour of flipping through my Clymer manual and looking at the tank with a flash light to realize there are no bolts holding the tank to the frame, and that I only had to lift it up and pull it out. Oops.


The seat has to come out before you can do anything else on the bike, as it blocks entry to the carbs and the battery. With the seat removed I was gained entrance to everything else. Yay!



Next stop was pulling out the airbox. Looking straight down at the air filter I realized in 5 seconds why I had been having so many issues before. My bike tends to want to idle high, and wastes a lot of fuel. Well one look at the air filter makes that issue's cause clear.



There is no cover to my air box. Even worse, there's no sort of protective shielding between the rear tire and the air box. This means that the back tire is constantly kicking everything on the road up into my air filter. Blech!
There's no air flow getting into my carbs.

Well. I quickly ripped the airbox out of my bike. It won't be going back on. Why? Because I have these babies now instead! Individual UNI racing filters. One of them slips over each carb, and they can be repeatedly cleaned and reused.