82 gs850g

[guns]

i read somewhere on here about raising the needles on the carbs on step i dont know what they mean my needles only have one step?

[Nessism]

Remove the plastic washer on top of the needle clip and replace it with a couple of thin metal washers with a combined height roughtly 1/2 the height of the plastic washer. Easy job as long as you have long needle nose plyers and can find some appropriate washers.

[bwringer]

Some earlier carbs had several notches in the needles so you could change the position of the needle by moving a tiny little clip.

Your carbs are a later type that was not supposed to be adjustable. You can raise the needles by juggling the spacers and washers as described.

I believe there are some aftermarket needles (for off road use only... ) for the later type carbs that are adjustable, but you probably don't have those unless you or a PO installed a jetting kit.

You can find tiny washers that will work at most decent hardware stores -- look in the metric section first. Meanards, bLowes, and Home Despot are not hardware stores, nor are they decent...

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