Slow jet is too small?
Road Captain
Joined: Apr 2012
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From: Sweden via Bisbee, Az.
allow for that the new jet can be faulty... (don't ask me how, maybe one of the seasoned wrenchs on here can tell us) who knows where they're made nowadays. Hell at least they still cheap.
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From: SE Louisiana
I usually check for the correct size with number drills,
a #78 (.016) should pass through,
a #77 (.018) shouldn't,
.45mm is about .0177.
Just check for size, don't force and booger the hole.
a #78 (.016) should pass through,
a #77 (.018) shouldn't,
.45mm is about .0177.
Just check for size, don't force and booger the hole.
Road Master
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From: NJ
Last time I was cleaning my carb, took a dinner break, I left it on the workbench with the bowl off and my benchlight on - right above it. A couple of small flys commited hari-kari by flying into the light bulb and dropping dead right into the bowl. I reassembled it and wondered why it ran like crap until I took it apart again and found the dead flys, they were stuck in the highspeed jet in my case...It was kind of funny at the time.,...
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From: Powder Springs, GA
Last time I was cleaning my carb, took a dinner break, I left it on the workbench with the bowl off and my benchlight on - right above it. A couple of small flys commited hari-kari by flying into the light bulb and dropping dead right into the bowl. I reassembled it and wondered why it ran like crap until I took it apart again and found the dead flys, they were stuck in the highspeed jet in my case...It was kind of funny at the time.,...
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From: Bluffton, South Carolina
You either have a vacuum leak, or the slow speed circuit is faulty. It could be as simple as a plugged low speed jet or perhaps one of the passages is plugged.
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Tourer
Joined: Feb 2008
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From: Trabuco Canyon, California
I am having pretty much the same problem....I chased around other ignition components and have been looking at the carb too...no luck yet....so far I've just adjusted the AF mixture screw to compensate for the problem but it still just doesn't seem right.
I thought I might have a manifold leak but spraying the area didn't reveal any engine rpm changes.
As far as vacuum leak, are you referring to manifold or to the VOES?
If you nail it, be sure and post your fix.
I thought I might have a manifold leak but spraying the area didn't reveal any engine rpm changes.
As far as vacuum leak, are you referring to manifold or to the VOES?
If you nail it, be sure and post your fix.