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Whats your favorite carbs?
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now if somebody made an easy to retrofit kit for use electro/techno challenged types!:laugh:Electronic fuel injection. :whistle:
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got a simple idiot proof kit?:laugh:fuel injection as well and it gives you things to play with as well
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talk about depressing...I have two old LTD's. An 82 550 LTD with TK22's and my new project, an '80 750 LTD with CV 34's. Sounds like I am 2 for 2 on pain in the butt carbs... I don't have too much experience yet with the CV's, but I have had alot of experience with the TK's. All I have really done though in 5 yrs I owned the bike is replace the needles. However, this bike has always been a very hard starting bike. I actually keep a rag under my seat so I can plug the intake to get some extra choke. My TK's are missing all 4 doors on the choke...my question is, where in the heck did these go? I put a set of rings and head/base gasket in 2 yrs ago and did not find any missing doors or scoring on the sleeves.
I found out it was Harm (a member here) who blocked all of the flap openings on the TK22 choke plates. Then when he starts the bike, he justs lifts the choke open slightly as he's cranking and it starts right up. That would emulate the blocking-the-airbox-mouth method. I think he also just put an extra detent on the choke lever just above the closed position that he goes to after starting.
I believe you can pull the choke plates out without removing the carbs. As a matter of fact, I don't remove the carbs for much of anything short of a complete rebuild. I use allen screws on the bowls so I can access the jets from below, and the needle, throttle-balance, and choke is all handled from above. One trick is to put a super-thin coat of antiseize on the bowl gasket. The bowls come off like new then. In 15 years of changing jets etc. I haven't replaced one bowl gasket yet, on about a dozen sets of TK22's.
I recommend the fast-idle screw mod I mentioned on the previous page of this thread. That will also help with starting in different temperature ranges.
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74 Z1-A stock
76 KZ-900 Totaly stock vice MAC pipe
77 KZ-1000A stock
78 Z1-R 100%MINT 500 original Mi.
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