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Hey Ken, great to hear from you!

I bought a gallon of NAPA carb cleaner the other day; and per instruction, soaked each carb (parts too) for twenty minutes. After a through rinse, I did the carb cleaner spray, steel wire, and compressed air tricks to all little drilled passages here and there.

Since I never seem to have guitar string around, I've always used picture frame braided wire. In fact, I keep a bit of it in the bike's tool kits. Ken, as you may recall from the May '06 Boxerworks Forum Rally, Gerard from Florida came hobbling in on his ill-running airhead. It took a bit of time, but he and Larryfixit found the problem with one of those tiny holes being plugged.....

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dwerbil wrote:.... Gerard from Florida came hobbling in on his ill-running airhead. It took a bit of time, but he and Larryfixit found the problem with one of those tiny holes being plugged.....

Ditto for me in '07. Yea, Larry.


Yea, Ken's back!

Native /5 wrote: . . . Ditto for me in '07. Yea, Larry . . .

I remember that Native. You were verrrrrry happy!

No moss grows on Larry Fixit. I see him as a sort of whirling dervish of airhead fixin' (or anything else that gets in his range, actually).

Ken

Use some fine copper wire next time to clean those little holes. STEEL wire CAN change the size and might raise a burr someplace where you don't want!
Unravel a piece of lamp wire for instance...or some other stranded flexible wire.

The RS is a-running fine now, other than sync'ing the carbs. Will do that tomorrow.

Geez...prices from Bing sure have jumped since I last needed to do a carb rebuild. I bought the basic gasket and o-ring set for two, along with two needles and jets and one set of floats. With freight, it was 150 bucks. Ouch!

Jean wrote:Use some fine copper wire next time to clean those little holes. STEEL wire CAN change the size and might raise a burr someplace where you don't want!
Unravel a piece of lamp wire for instance...or some other stranded flexible wire.

What I've used is the flimsiest of wire. It's on the line of angel hair, so to speak.

Too late now, but next time check out the prices of carb rebuild gasket sets etc at www.EUBMW.com