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Old Aug 31, 2024 | 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Max Headflow
That's an interesting fix considering that the bike ran fine then all of a sudden started missing..
Yeah, something doesn't make sense.
 
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I went back and reread, did these problems started after you put the G on it or was it with the E that came with the motor?
And what was your jettting with the E and what is your jetting with the G?
no i had on old style G carb that didnt have the capability to change the air bleed jet. i was just a hole.
 
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Originally Posted by Max Headflow
That's an interesting fix considering that the bike ran fine then all of a sudden started missing..
i had an old style G carb on the bike when it started happening and had the old gas tank on it with bunch of rust and old tank liner inside of the tank. so something got into the carb and made it run like ****. but its fixed now so definitely was the problem.
 
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Yeah, something doesn't make sense.
makes sense to me because the bikes works good now. no more cutting out and running out of gas.
 
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i had an old style G carb on the bike when it started happening and had the old gas tank on it with bunch of rust and old tank liner inside of the tank. so something got into the carb and made it run like ****. but its fixed now so definitely was the problem.
So you don't have an air compressor?
 
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So you don't have an air compressor?
 
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So you don't have an air compressor?
no i do and i have everything else to clean one out also. it was an old carb that looked like crap so i ended up buying a new one.
 
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