replacing my carb
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replacing my carb - 5/19/2008 7:14:49 PM
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Rat bike
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Ok, I'm tired of my %$^%$ carb. Now my bike is backfireing black smoke out the pipes and I have always gotten crappy milage. I think my Edelbroc Quicksilver is to blame. I am looking to replace it. What I have found are: a smoothbore Mikuni carb 40mm, a Bendex marked Zenith fuel system MF 24220 38 mm, a S&S L body marked gal (I don't know the size) and a Mikuni VM 38mm. Now all of them are in my price range. (The L body may go too high). Not sure which one is the better of the bunch, so any input would help. My bike is an old 72 with the petcock on the right side.
Thanks,
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RE: replacing my carb - 5/19/2008 7:34:34 PM
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supr2nr
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The bendex was a great stock carb and would probably suffice for what you want. Probably one of the cheapest to maintain and easy to find parts. Only problem with them is a rubber o-ring which has a tendency to fall apart. Can be fixed easily enough though.
The mikuni VM 38mm is a great carb. A lot of people on here will atest to that. They are hard to find parts for but they really don't need much tuning. As long as they have the correct jets they run flawlessly.
The mikuni 40mm is a bit too big for our sportsters and will only cause you more headache.
I have never used S&S' but they are from what I read really good. Most people use Super E's or Super G's though so I am not too familiar with the L
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RE: replacing my carb - 5/19/2008 10:22:49 PM
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sepixlh
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I have mikuni hrs42 in my bike and it works just fine... however one of the best solutions is use Keihin CV from evo, cheap, easy to get parts, easy to adjust.
S&S is also good chose, it has little problems it hardly ever can be tuned to operate nice whole rpm range... Super E is for sportster Super G is far too big. Super B is missing accelator pump.
Keihin butterfly "old" technic... if throttle shaft is good it usually works.
Mikuni VM38 or 40 works nicely much better that S&S.
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