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Old Jun 24, 2021 | 08:00 PM
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Regarding the CV carb air/fuel mixture screw (little screw under the aluminum plug on bottom of carb), does this screw regulate air or fuel? If I turn the screw in, is that making the mixture lean or rich?
 
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Old Jun 24, 2021 | 08:37 PM
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In, or clockwise will lean the mixture. Out, or counter clockwise will richen the mixture. Most folks say to start at about 2.5 turns out and adjust from there. Of course that depends on mods and jet sizes being used.
 
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Originally Posted by Rt13MFer
Regarding the CV carb air/fuel mixture screw (little screw under the aluminum plug on bottom of carb), does this screw regulate air or fuel? If I turn the screw in, is that making the mixture lean or rich?
It regulates fuel. Therefore it's a mixture screw, rather than an air screw
 
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This is an air screw
 
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Thanks all. And eighteight, I did call it an air/FUEL mixture screw.
 
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Thanks all. And eighteight, I did call it an air/FUEL mixture screw.
Wasn`t correcting you sir.
Just making a joke
 
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All good. Im an aircraft fan also. Bikes are my way of flying open cockpit aircraft on the ground.
 
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