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Idle mixture screw moved!
09/22/06 at 12:55:25

I don't know how it happened, but my idle mixture screw unscrewed itself about 5 turns out over the last few months. The bike was running super rich and would stall at idle. Just before stalling, it would puff out thick black smoke from the exhaust. I was thinking carb overhaul but tried the idle mixture screw first and it was about 4 or 5 full turns too far out.

I set it to 2 1/2 turns out total and all is fine again.

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Ed L. Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline "We All go a Little Crazy Sometimes" Norman Bates Posts: 2808 Sunny Florida Gender:	Re: Idle mixture screw moved! Reply #1 - 09/22/06 at 13:25:04 Sounds like gremlin activity to me.
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vroom1776 Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 2110 Gender:	Re: Idle mixture screw moved! Reply #2 - 09/22/06 at 14:01:14 cheack and repalce the retaining spring.
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Kropatchek Serious Thumper Offline Why more than 1 cylinder? Posts: 1457 Alphen a/d Rijn Netherlands Gender:	Re: Idle mixture screw moved! Reply #3 - 09/23/06 at 03:35:28 Ed L. wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:09: Sounds like gremlin activity to me. He probably doesn't have a Gremlin Bell
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ero4444 Full Member Offline weekender Posts: 176	Re: Idle mixture screw moved! Reply #4 - 10/08/08 at 17:57:41 I'm the third owner of my bike and now I know what that bell is for! Good think I didn't take it off.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Idle mixture screw moved! Reply #5 - 10/09/08 at 09:12:44 If the spring is too puny to hold it, maybe one from a ball point pen would fit in there?
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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: Idle mixture screw moved! Reply #6 - 10/09/08 at 09:26:43 Justin,you must be old I called it a ball point pen to my kids one time and they didn't know what I was talking about,in this modern age its just pen
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mikestrikes Ex Member	Re: Idle mixture screw moved! Reply #7 - 10/09/08 at 17:25:01 I place a dab of silicon sealer on top of the screw head after its set. Easy to mess with if needed but keeps the adjustment screw in place.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Idle mixture screw moved! Reply #8 - 10/09/08 at 20:43:10 bill67 wrote on 10/09/08 at 09:26:43: Justin,you must be old I called it a ball point pen to my kids one time and they didn't know what I was talking about,in this modern age its just pen Yep, old enough to get "He's OLD looks from kids",,But not as old as some the riders here. Im 53..
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