benroloff
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Never heard of something like that. Do you know the reason behind that?Yes, make sure you don't over tighten the carb bolts, that will make it run like crap.
Never heard of something like that. Do you know the reason behind that?Yes, make sure you don't over tighten the carb bolts, that will make it run like crap.
There should be a paper gasket between the carb body and the insulator?
I put a new oem o-ring on but I get the feeling that I have been tightening the carb way to tight. I never would have thought of something like that being a problem. I will put a straight edge (surface plate is wishful thinking for me lol) on it just to be safe too. Thanks!As the two bolts are tightened, they bow the mating surface. The torque setting for the carb flange is quite low.
When you take the carb off, remove the O ring and check it across the flange with a straightedge (steel ruler) or on a surface plate. No gasket needed if there's an O ring and replace the O ring with a new OEM one - not from the plumbing section of the hardware store.
You could also replcae the two nuts with Fuji or nylock nuts.
Not sure, but it seemed to cause it to bulge out in the middle.Never heard of something like that. Do you know the reason behind that?
Oh I almost forgot about my dummy of the year award. So when I removed all the old gaskets I had to remove some residue from the mating surfaces, and I put a paper shop towel in the intake port on the head so that I wouldn’t drop a bunch of seal material down into the engine, but as it would turn out I forgot to take it out when I reassembled everything. So basically the bike started right up with no issues but when I revved it it violently died and I spent hours trying to find the problem and cleaning the carb and checking spark and timing before I took the carb off and looked down the intake port and realized what I had done. Thankfully I was able to fish it all out except maybe a few tiny little pieces that I could smell burning off when I got the bike fired up. So hopefully I didn’t do any serious damage to the engine when the remnants of the paper towel got sucked down cause man would this really blow.
TL: DR
I am a moron
Haha... that's like your bike building initiation dude... I've done some real bonehead stuff that cost me a lot of time and effort... glad you caught it tho, now you have SUPER clean carbs xDOh I almost forgot about my dummy of the year award. So when I removed all the old gaskets I had to remove some residue from the mating surfaces, and I put a paper shop towel in the intake port on the head so that I wouldn’t drop a bunch of seal material down into the engine, but as it would turn out I forgot to take it out when I reassembled everything. So basically the bike started right up with no issues but when I revved it it violently died and I spent hours trying to find the problem and cleaning the carb and checking spark and timing before I took the carb off and looked down the intake port and realized what I had done. Thankfully I was able to fish it all out except maybe a few tiny little pieces that I could smell burning off when I got the bike fired up. So hopefully I didn’t do any serious damage to the engine when the remnants of the paper towel got sucked down cause man would this really blow.
TL: DR
I am a moron