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well, my 36mm slingshots were running so rich the bike would never even idle. 3 ppl besides me have tinkered with them to no avail.
last week a friend gave me a new set of carb bodies jetted right with the following warning: "use your slides and needles in them because the needles that are in there are too large and dont fit into the needle jets"
well, the little hamster in my head started spinning frantically in its little wheel...
too rich under all throttle openings, so much fuel that it was spraying out the tailpipes, wet plugs after every attempted start...
where was the fuel coming from?
tick tick tick, whirrrr...
i concluded if needles could be too large in diameter they could also be too small, so sure enough, his too-large needles fit right into my needle jets. thats where the extra fuel was coming from, it was making it past the needles at anything but WOT.
bike idles fine, no smoke, im going to go take it for a spin now...
last week a friend gave me a new set of carb bodies jetted right with the following warning: "use your slides and needles in them because the needles that are in there are too large and dont fit into the needle jets"
well, the little hamster in my head started spinning frantically in its little wheel...
too rich under all throttle openings, so much fuel that it was spraying out the tailpipes, wet plugs after every attempted start...
where was the fuel coming from?
tick tick tick, whirrrr...
i concluded if needles could be too large in diameter they could also be too small, so sure enough, his too-large needles fit right into my needle jets. thats where the extra fuel was coming from, it was making it past the needles at anything but WOT.
bike idles fine, no smoke, im going to go take it for a spin now...
