ok, where do you get the special tool

[SKD]

where the heck do theses japenese people come up with their engineering? this needle jet snap ring is a joke, do they even make snapring pliers that fit down there? if so who and where are they? i hate engineering that could be simple that they make so fricken hard.....rrrrrr.....
ok rant over

[chef1366]

Cheap long needle nosed pliers from Harbor Freight work just fine.

[bwringer]

http://www.z1enterprises.com/detail.aspx?ID=2868

[SKD]

tried the needle nose plies, dont have any that have the perfect ends on them.
ohhhhhh z1 my favorite place, if i cant find any locally tomorrow, z1 it is...man im thinkin z1 owes me a t-shirt too....
thanks guys....

[tkent02]

tried the needle nose plies, dont have any that have the perfect ends on them.

So grind em down until they fit, and spend a little time cussing at that ninety year old gook engineer that designed this crap.

[SKD]

So grind em down until they fit, and spend a little time cussing at that ninety year old gook engineer that designed this crap.

did that already, wifes laughin at me cause of it....lmao...

[SKD]

ahhh, found an old set inside the old toolbox, snap ring pliers ground down ta almost nothin, check....lol

[sparki]

wasn't so hard now then was it... lol

[Dogma]

So grind em down until they fit, and spend a little time cussing at that ninety year old gook engineer that designed this crap.

Mikuni is Korean?

[Turtleface]

Mikuni is Korean?

Seriously, if you're going to break out the racial epithets, use the right one! Give the little nips the credit they deserve!

Back on topic, I used a set of right angle snap ring pliers for these. I bought em from Mike's XS, since I was buying other carb parts anyways, but you can get the same thing at Harbor Freight, and a few others that will work as well. Just make sure the reach is sufficient to get in there.

[Griffin]

Mikuni is Korean?

No, Vietnamese.....

[hikermikem]

I just cleaned/rebuilt a set of Keihin carbs off an older V45 Honda for a friend of mine...

Thoses needles are held in place by a 3-eared plastic cap that has a nut molded into it. You simply use a socket on an extension and turn the cap about 60 degrees to remove/secure it.

Much easier than those Mikuni snap rings...

[chef1366]

I've removed hundreds of those with the HF cheapo needle nose. I didn't even modify them.

[SKD]

wasn't so hard now then was it... lol

nope, painless..lmao their outta the old, i never use, toolbox. so now the snapring pliers have gone to the suzuki gods and are now part of the bike