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If someone could re post this I would be forever in your debt and will make sure I print off a copy for future use. The reason I ask is because I'm at the point of needing to clean the carbs before I put them back on the bike. These have been off for almost 2 years and just need to blow them out real good. Plus #2 was burning a tad rich. I think the air needle is involved. I can turn it in or out and there is no change. The other 3 work as advertised.
I'll finish the install with a carb tune.
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Worked like a champ. I had a carb problem on #2. I could screw the air bleed all the way in or out without change in engine RPM. The other three worked as they are supposed to. So I got a chart and instructions. My port Number 6 was in fact plugged on #2. After following procedures, I now have carb cleaner coming out of port #6.
I have not fired the motor yet but I'm confident #2 will have a working sir screw adjustment.
Carb cleaner. I went to NAPA and asked for a can of the nastiest,most environmentally unsafe carb clear they had. I was directed to a can of Vavoline Heavy duty carb cleaner. I tested this stuff and found it would remove stuff the other carb cleaner I had on hand would not touch.
If I got some of this carb clearner on my hands or forehead, I was immediately aware of it more so if on the forehead. . I think I just found a new brand of carb cleaner which will actually work until the EPA figures it out. :whistle:
Patton wrote: Here's a better cleaning method, because it's critical that the #6 orifices into the carb bore (from the pilot passage #5) are clean and clear.
If the #6 orifices are tightly clogged, running cleaner as shown in the video will simply flow out the #2 pilot air passage and won't run through the #6 orifices, which leaves the #6 orifices just as clogged as they were to begin with.
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on the input from the tech surveys and as my ADD kicked in the rest was blah blah blah but I did catch the part
where they have reformulated those 2 products to actualy work in a shop environment
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