Deflowering my Carburetor

Warning: This post will contain multiple uses of sexual innuendo's. So if you don't like it, oh well.

So today Jason (my friend that helped to change the oil and look at the bike at the beginning) and I did some work on the Carburetor. Total time. About 2 1/2 hours. Including messing with the throttle since it was geting stuck, and putting in a new fuel line (make sure you get a new one with some new hose clamps). And we moved the hadlebars to accomodate for my gigantorness.


The goods.


Front of the carburetor, flow direction wise.

We ripped her off, pulled some hoses, screwed and unscrewed some bolts, changed her diaphragm, gave her a new jet, cleaned her up, drilled her, hammered her...I could keep going on, but its just sounding weird. Go here for some pics. Carburetor Work.

So here is some of the work that we did.



Here is a picture of the carb without the bottom on it. If you look to the right side, what would be considered the back in terms of airflow, you can see a little round cap on a tube that is sticking out. Under that cap is the Air/Fuel Mixture Screw, the cap will get drilled, I have a link of more information on that in my previous post.



Here is a picture of the Air/Fuel Mixture screw with the cap drilled. Again, see one of my earlier posts for links on how to do all that. I turned the screw clockwise just till it set, not to it was tight. Then I backed it out 2 1/2 turns. Works great.



Here is the new slow jet that was installed. I bumped it up from a 42 to a 45. Seems to be working.



Here is the main jet. It is already a 185, so there was no need to do anything. We just took it out and made sure it looked good.



Here is the Accelerator Pump Diaphram. It sits on the bottom of the carburetor and squirts fuel into the carb venturi to assist on hard throttle movements and avoid hesitations and much needed fuel. It wasn't all that much, and it probably helped a little having a new one.

I also installed a fuel filter that I will attempt to get a picture of at some point. You can see it in the bag. It just catches little debris that the main filter might not get.

Jason and I both did test rides. No problems. The ride home it was wonderful. No more spitting or caughing through the carb. Speaking of which, it was really bad with oil and everything. Should clear up now.

Oh, and the idle currently is sitting between 1,100 and 1,300 rpms. I might lower that a bit more. We will see when I pull these sparkplugs to change.

And no more chugging at 2,500 - 3,000 rmps!!!!!