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    ok, where do you get the special tool

    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
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    Cheap long needle nosed pliers from Harbor Freight work just fine.
    1983 GS 1100E w/ 1230 kit, .340 lift Web Cams, Ape heavy duty valve springs, 83 1100 head with 1.5mm oversized SS intake valves, 1150 crank, Vance and Hines 1150 SuperHub, Star Racing high volume oil pump gears, 36mm carebs Dynojet stage 3 jet kit, Posplayr's SSPB, Progressive rear shocks and fork springs, Dyna 2000, Dynatek green coils and Vance & Hines 4-1 exhaust.
    1985 GS1150ES stock with 85 Red E bodywork.

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        #4
        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....

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          #5
          Originally posted by SKD View Post
          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.


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            #6
            Originally posted by tkent02 View Post
            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...

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              #7
              ahhh, found an old set inside the old toolbox, snap ring pliers ground down ta almost nothin, check....lol

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                #8
                wasn't so hard now then was it... lol

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by tkent02 View Post
                  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?
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Dogma View Post
                    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.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Dogma View Post
                      Mikuni is Korean?
                      No, Vietnamese.....
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                        #12
                        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...
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                          #13
                          I've removed hundreds of those with the HF cheapo needle nose. I didn't even modify them.
                          1983 GS 1100E w/ 1230 kit, .340 lift Web Cams, Ape heavy duty valve springs, 83 1100 head with 1.5mm oversized SS intake valves, 1150 crank, Vance and Hines 1150 SuperHub, Star Racing high volume oil pump gears, 36mm carebs Dynojet stage 3 jet kit, Posplayr's SSPB, Progressive rear shocks and fork springs, Dyna 2000, Dynatek green coils and Vance & Hines 4-1 exhaust.
                          1985 GS1150ES stock with 85 Red E bodywork.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by sparki View Post
                            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

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