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Mate that electronic copy of the service manual is all you need, provided your good at interpreting the terse as hell explenation & assumptions made. But it'll do to get you out of most pinches i find.

Pitstop bookshop in Perth may have them, even though i cannot find it in their online listing. I bought a book from them (ordered it at 5am on a tuesday morning as i was on night shift) and they called and apologised at 9:00am their time (midday in Sydney) as i had to wait until Wednesday morning before they could post the book as they'd run out of my book the day before and couldnt ship it on Tuesay, definately what i call customer service. It arrived Thursday morning, incredible!!

If your determined to find an aftermarket manual, in australia look for the zzr250 / gpx250, for the US, ex250 & ninja 250 if thats any use. Oh and ebay is good for these kindsa of things too.

I don't think there are any after market manuals for the zzr/gpx/ninja250r. My mate brought the Kawasaki manuals (gpz250r base and zzr supp) and didn't find them too expensive.

...and look at this:
http://www.ninja250.info/maintenance/maintain/carbs.htm

In fact while you're at it, look at the entire FAQ, interesting stuff in there:
http://www.ninja250.info/

The EX250 in the US (what they call the Ninja 250) is actually the GPX250R, they don't get the ZZR250 in the US, only in Canada.

However, they are essentially the same engine/gearbox/carbs so you should be ok.

HTH

thanks for this.. exactly what i was after....

keep you informed

Trev zzr250 wrote: the problem really only happened after i transported it on a trailer up north on holidays......

I bet you didn't turn off the fuel tap whilst you transported it

All the bouncing around screws up your float levels........drain the carbys and she'll be sweet again

wouldnt hurt to check the fuel level too while your at it, should be real easy on a twin, just hook a piece of clear hose to the bowl drain and hold it up next to the carby while opening it... fuel level should either be at the bowl gasket level or at a marker on the side of the carb, should say so in the manual... a LOT easier than pulling carbs down and measuring with a little steel ruler

thanx ratmik, i ahev also saved that to favourites..


im with rossi re float the carbies and she will be running like adream, well not quite it is still only a 250, but u knwo what i mean.......
its an easy task only takes about 30 min to do. good luck

My mechanic finally has got back to me after i told him i really can't afford him to chase problems around...

But he has confirmed that big ends OK and Clutch OK and nearly every other thing in the bike ok...... hope doesn't cost too much...
except....
the carbie on the left side has come away from the air box and there is a bit of rubber or something there that was making all the noise and restricting air flow to that carbie.....

he is going to fix that problem and do the carbie check...
will get is back to today... yay...

Thanks for all your help... you guys gave me the confidents to keep on the mechanics back.. about it... I think i will ask you guys first next time and do the work myself...... save $$$