The bowl screws are of course facing one way, it is incredibly difficult. There is almost no clearance, I fidgeted with it with even the smallest screw driver for thirty minutes. The bike has been sitting 10 days, has fuel stabilizer, but I am afraid of jets getting clogged. Anyone have any tips?
2007-02-22 09:27:30 · 3 answers · asked by SFAcoustic 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Motorcycles
The jets aren't going to suffer in that short space of time. I leave one of my bikes weeks without riding it and fuel in the bowls and it's always fine.
2007-02-22 10:22:34 · answer #1 · answered by SpannerMonkey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
old ninjas are my bikes. Dude if you are having problems with the bike and fuel is the likly source, then stop being lazy! First check the tank for rust, if rust them "cream" it. Then put in fresh gas not old crap. Then take the air box out and the carbs out or at least remove them from intake boots and flip them and you can keep cables attached. Them take the bowls off and spray all the jets with carb cleaner use the little straw included. And the #1 thing, remove the pilot jets and run a peice of fishing string through them to make sure there clean. Gas gets gummy and they get pluged. The pilot jets are small jets that you will need a tiny flat head screw driver to get them out, sometimes they have rubber caps or plugs that hide them (im not talking about the factory plugs over the mixture screws) these plugs are under float bowls. Anyway if you do all of that, I garantee it will run 10X better.
2007-02-25 19:05:55 · answer #2 · answered by Slick Ster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use an extra long phillips head screw driver. Every mechanic has one in their tool box.
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2007-02-22 19:50:59 · answer #3 · answered by guardrailjim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋