New Carb for 1995 Road King
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New Carb for 1995 Road King
So with my 1995 Road King FLHR, I have considered removing my 25 year old carb and doing a rebuild, and losing parts, and not having right parts, and swearing bad enough to make paint peel but for the sake of a blissful homefront, I'm looking for a complete replacement. Would you have any suggestions for a complete replacement for stock? Maybe a "plug and play"? It is running not quite up to snuff and I've done nearly everything else and this is the last low hanging fruit.
I'm all ears (and patience) and thanks in advance.
I'm all ears (and patience) and thanks in advance.
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Do yourself a favor and get a S&S carb. I did for my 1994 FLHR and I'm glad I did. I did however make many, many more changes. such as Cam, lifters, cam breather, pushrods, bored out .020 over, new pistons, rings, heads rebuilt, true duals. Well worth the $$. The bike had 57000 miles on it and after getting into it, found out someone before me had changed to a slightly larger cam than stock. I also found a lifter starting to go bad, prior to my rebuild.
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Do yourself a favor and get a S&S carb. I did for my 1994 FLHR and I'm glad I did. I did however make many, many more changes. such as Cam, lifters, cam breather, pushrods, bored out .020 over, new pistons, rings, heads rebuilt, true duals. Well worth the $$. The bike had 57000 miles on it and after getting into it, found out someone before me had changed to a slightly larger cam than stock. I also found a lifter starting to go bad, prior to my rebuild.
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I was fortunate enough to be the only person to get 132,000 miles out of my carb. Then the HD dealership stole it and I got screwed with one of the "bad" ones. Still was able to fix it for less then $100.
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What do you mean by good vs bad? Do you mean they switched out your tuned carb for somebody else's not so tuned carb? Just curious. YD
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They replaced my original carb with one that was "tuned" not for the purpose I used the bike for.
Drilled slide, not stock spring, wrong needle, both jets had been replaced and the emulsion tube replaced. It took about 6mo. to find all the after market parts and replace with stock. The jets were easy to spot of course, but the others were harder to verify and replace. Also the plug at the 6 o'clock position had been drilled for some reason. This allowed fuel to leak past the emulsion tube and richen the idle.
They also burnt out the ignition module, left the adjustable pushrods loose on the exhaust of the front cylinder and numerious other things.
The way I knew it wasn't my original carb was because my bike '01 FXDXT had a recall on the fuel elbow and this carb had the original, mine had been replaced. Thanks to CVP I was able to get it back to stock and running fairly good again.
Drilled slide, not stock spring, wrong needle, both jets had been replaced and the emulsion tube replaced. It took about 6mo. to find all the after market parts and replace with stock. The jets were easy to spot of course, but the others were harder to verify and replace. Also the plug at the 6 o'clock position had been drilled for some reason. This allowed fuel to leak past the emulsion tube and richen the idle.
They also burnt out the ignition module, left the adjustable pushrods loose on the exhaust of the front cylinder and numerious other things.
The way I knew it wasn't my original carb was because my bike '01 FXDXT had a recall on the fuel elbow and this carb had the original, mine had been replaced. Thanks to CVP I was able to get it back to stock and running fairly good again.
