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Old Jun 9, 2017 | 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by TwiZted Biker
Too rich if it was lean it'd be farting through the carb.
would that cause the backfiring on start up?
 
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Old Jun 9, 2017 | 04:49 PM
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Yeppppp. Ultima has a pretty good set of instructions for their R2 carb

http://www.ultimaproducts.com/Ultima...structions.pdf
 

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Originally Posted by rwhisen
Yeppppp. Ultima has a pretty good set of instructions for their R2 carb

http://www.ultimaproducts.com/Ultima...structions.pdf
Thanks, my problem was i didn't let the bike warm up before making the adjustments. I was trying to do it while it was warming up. Dumb idea.
 
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It will be really tough to tune it that way....
 
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