HJH
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Starting the mods on the '02 Savage I bought last Friday, and while reading what all of you have done nearer sea level is valuable, I live at 6,000 plus feet, and except for an occasional foray to Colorado, seldom ride where a motorcycle gets enough oxygen for sea level jetting. This bike was bought for the former owner's wife, who rode it all of 300 miles in four years. Either she rode it in the wrong gear with the choke on all the time, or the bike is really running rich for some reason, since the plug looks like the inside of the chimney on my wood stove. Problems I identified were the clamp on the intake boot between the carb and engine was loose and leaking, he had to buy a new battery to get it started, the air screw was set wrong, and the tires are weather-checked original equipment. The question is - who has jetted one of these babies at elevation? More than that, are the usual mods appropriate at 6,000 feet? I have a Supertrapp arriving today, and a Raptor petcock and a new air filter somewhere in a UPS truck. The carb is clean and in pieces on the table. Given how much fun it is to shoehorn the carb off and back onto this bike, I'd like to do it as few times as possible. So, is it a waste of time at this elevation to do the spacer mod? With motocross and enduro bikes, I always had to raise the needle clip to lean the mid-range and lean the main jet to get them to run right, sometimes two spaces up on the needle and two main jet sizes smaller. At elevation is the spacer mod and richer main jet going the wrong way, or will the Supertrapp and filter lean it enough to compensate? Looking at the spark plug has me a touch concerned, although lugging hell out of the bike in the wrong gear may have contributed to that. Anyone got experience or an educated opinion on jetting a Savage at altitude? I didn't see it on the site.
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Silver '02, Dyna, Raptor Petcock, VM carb at 6000 ft, Q2 needle, 12.5 pilot, 170 main, UFO, Verslavy, Pirelli 150/90, Plexistar 2 Windshield, K&N filter, Tourmaster II bag, Progressive Shocks
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