Oh my gods, man, you are likely the only person I can find on YT that shows a detailed video of this! Everyone has detailed videos on how to rebuild the carb or clean it, but you're the first that shows what needs to be done. Everyone else just "says" what you need to do, but you're actually showing and pointing.

Dude, my man. Thank you so much. I just bought a -86 V45 and was looking for a video to help me when I decide to do this job. And your's was the best! Cheers from Finland!

i suddenlu feel so happy about the space i have in my garage .. ty for the video man helped alot

Man not a bad tutorial. Gives me hope for what I have to do tomorrow. 😂

Ratchet strap worked for me. Literally maxing out the buckle before one of the sides finally popped. Screws on the boots had to be VERY lose before it finally popped.

Just finished cleaning the carbs on my 1984 vf1000f. Its a similar setup and man are the carbs a pain. I had them on and of 7 times before I got it right. Now I'm working on my 1986 v45 this week, I had the exact same problem as you so I bought aluminum fuel tubes from ebay, hopefully the magna goes better haha wish me luck

Thank you so much! What a great video! This gave me the confidence to pry on it (gently) and the confidence to know I had done it correctly. Thanks from Idaho!

No problem disassembling! Pulling this cinder block out is the hard part and is the part that is skipped in the video 😂

I liked the video up until you skip the part of how you got the carb out of the frame. I have been trying and as near as I can tell I HAVE to drop the engine by about 1inch to be able to get the carb out. If you did it without having to drop the engine a bit I sure would have loved to have seen it.

Just digging into my "winter project" '84 700 Magna. Good tips to leave the engine side clamp tight and heat the boots. Mine look kinda crusty. Oh, goody...

well made vid now im gona give it a try :P

Thank you for your help

Those springs go to the throttle linkage on the carbs - I'm going through this same process myself and actually my carbs were completely missing those two smaller springs so there was a lot of play in the throttle linkage on the carbs preventing all four carb butterflies from opening/closing at the same time so I had to order those smaller springs for mine from Partzilla. I know this video is from several months ago so how did the project go? Did you finish it yet and get the bike running?

Float level is not shutting off all four need cleaned and bad

Bro, you skipped a lot of parts I needed to see~! Many good aspects, so keep it up. I'd urge you to buy an $8.XX tripod from Goodwill if you can't have a cameraman. (Trust me, I realize it's hard because I have no one who's time I would want to "borrow" just to be a cameraman). I needed to see you pull the assembly out the left side because I've done ALL the prep you showed and it seems like a protruding part of the fuel tube towards the left side of the bike, where the hose connects, is in my way. Another older viddy here mentions moving the radiator forward (I think), but your view showed me nothing of it that should be an obstacle. Thanks for this viddy; I'm sorry if I was a bit discouraging.

Just did this on my 82

Taking does carburator out is no a problem..putting it back thats going to be a pain in the neck..i have a 1985 i replace the booths...is a trick to put it back..the best way with a strap and be carefull not to brake the housing that top part once u brake it make sure that u dont put the carburator and not fix the crack or hole..cause the engine will losse power if there is a air leak..