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Old Nov 5, 2006 | 05:54 PM
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Default Starving for fuel

Anyone else experience this. My bike has had this problem for a while now. I went through everything bigger jets, new carb, tried to reroute the fuel line and now finally bought a Pingel. I hope this does the trick. I have 33K miles on it so I figure the factory petcock is all clogged up by now. we will see I pulling it apart this afternoon.
 
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Old Nov 5, 2006 | 06:24 PM
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Has the screen EVER been cleaned?????

Is the vacuum diaphragm operating at the correct vacuum, or does it take more than required????

If it needs more vacuum, it's probably just a bad diaphragm....

 
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Old Nov 5, 2006 | 06:27 PM
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I personally have never changed the screen. But I bought the bike with 27K and put 6 on it so far. I think the the Pingel should take care of it. I am eliminting the vacuum switch altogether.
 
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Old Nov 6, 2006 | 12:24 AM
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much better! now it pulls to the rev limiter. My buddy on his chopper with a 100 in revtech has to actually try and pass me now.
 
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