Broken Fuel screw tips

[Guest]

Hey, Fellow GSer's! So, I pulled the carbs off my 79 GS1000 to give them a good cleaning, replace the o-rings and float bowl gaskets. (Picked up the o-ring kit and intake o-rings from a fellow on this site). The bike ran fine prior but leaked gas...and of course, I can't help but pull a few parts off the bike to at least put rebuild kits in them... I kinda like riding my old bikes, safely! ;-)

Anyway, carbs are clean and I'm beginning re assembly when I noticed a couple of fuel screw tips stuck in the bottom of the carb body. I was able to get one of them out but the other one just won't come out. I can't even tell where it is because of my mild hamfistedness, so my question is , what are the ramifications of not removing the one stubborn tip? Can it be removed by drilling from the opposite direction? What size of drill bit is needed? Should I just look for a used vm26 and replace it ? I will buy the very pointy fuel screws ...probably 3 of them anyway as 3 of them are shorter and duller than the longest, very pointy one.

Looking forward to your responses.....also, if anyone knows where to pick up the pointy fuel screws, that would be helpful. They don't seem to show on the OEM part schematic.

[steve murdoch]

This should work for you.

http://members.dslextreme.com/users/cbsaunders/gs/pilot_screw_removal.pdf

[chuck hahn]

http://www.siriusconinc.com/pro-detail.php?pid=&product_id=4245

[Def]

Thanks guys. I didn't know sirius listed the fuel screws. I've got a message into them as they show out of stock at the moment. As for the tip removal...it worked well on the one tip but the other just won't budge and yep...I already scratched the fuel body a bit. Anyway, I'll post up when I correct the problem. Cheers.