[Mandachan]

I've been looking through the forum a bit, and this seems to be the closest thing to what me and my husband are experiancing with my little GZ250. We just bought a 2001 - we knew it had SOME issues when we bought it.


I'm thinking whoever had it before (the guy we bought it from only had it 3 weeks, and was letting her go cause his wife basically said "I'm never going to ride so just get rid of the thing"). He had started working on it, but we're kinda thinking he really had no idea about it either - since when we got her the FIRST thing we did was do a complete oil change and empty out the overfilled oil.


Basically, she's having some real issues idling - especially when you first start her. We've played with the idle - and unless you turn the idle on really high - she won't stay idling(She IS ridable, just every now and then once you get her going she'll stall at a red light or stop sign). And even with it high, you still have to give her gas. My husband seems to think that it's idling wayyy too high. (Course, this is the first 250 he's worked on, and his prior motorcycle experiance is a ninja 650). I tend to agree with him that the motorcycle should at least be able to idle without having to yank the throttle every now and then. We've added some marvel mystery oil to both the oil and the gas to help clean it a bit - but I can't drive it till we get the new front brake pads and new tires (Brake pads ordered, tires will be gotten next week). Oh yes, we have the choke on whenever we start and run her - we're in florida. My husband thought that was rather odd considering it was 85 outside when we were working on her.


The throttle doesn't have as much slack as it should - is this something that we can do ourselves or go to a dealership and have them adjust? We've checked the air filter - it's new, replaced the oil filter with the the oil change.


Also, my husband seems to think there's some unneccessary noise coming from the engine - i can't describe it to you - he did the ole screwdriver stuck to the engine. I did some searches, only thing i really found was the chain might be loose - but checked the chain and that was in good working order.


Btw, it's a 2001 GZ250 with 7000 miles on it. It's been dropped on both sides (as far as we can tell). We're just trying to put some elbow grease into her and get her running for me. You know, it's kinda fun working on her too. (Shhh, don't tell my husband i said that!).