tuxedo
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Well, since I've been meaning to do it for a while, I downsized the main jet to a 150. Works great.
Got Glenn started and running, I had been flooded, in addition to a bad ground on the coil and a float that was twisted.
I beleive my float needle needs replacing, has a faint ring around it and seems to be allowing fuel to flow after shut-off. What doesn't help is a leaky petc0ck. Luckily, the float needle isn't letting enough flow to fill the crankcase, and the petc0ck leak is a drop every now and then. But if you park it for 30 minutes to check something in a book, drops really add up.
The pilot screw is stripped all to hell. When I got the bike it was stripped, and I didn't help that any. New one is already in the mail.
If you overtighten the pilot screw, can you break it on the inside?
I ask that question because Glenn is idling like a top fuel dragster, which is cool sounding, but not cool. Plug is, oddly, not reading rich. Then again, I've been checking the plug after interstate rides on that new 150 main jet.
I'm thinking leaner on the pilot jet might help, but until I can get the new pilot screw in and see if the mixture is all that's wrong, it'd be kinda useless for me to re-jet.
I got home at 5:30 yesterday and didn't get the bike going until 12:05. I've traced wiring, replaced grounds, drained the float bowl about a million times, and re-adjusted my float height more times than I care to say. Rode 60 miles with three stops after Glenn started. Only ran into one issue, but that was mentioned above. The solution was pretty easy.
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