Routy, read on to what he had to say about having to replace his petcock twice before he finally got a simple manual petcock that worked right.
He admits his current carb issues mostly stem from having people try to fix his carburetor multiple times (back when it wasn't necessarily the carb itself that was the total illness).
Now, after the grinder man got into his carb, yes his carb is dead
(tortured to death by Freddie Kruger and his file fingers)
Routy, you still don't have a list -- you have never shown any evidence of the first Savage S40 or LS650 carb issue that didn't start out as a petcock mess to begin with. (this one started out as a petcock anyway, so it doesn't help you any)
And, if you think this is one, you are simply mistaken.
Or else were mebbe all the rest of that non-list possibly non-650ccSavage examples too? I thought we were talking about 650 Savage motorcycles, not "other" cycles.
Heck, you'd be like Bill -- trying to justify his point with a 1966 Moto-Guzzi
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Drums -- you got it in one.
The persons he paid to fix it who took a file or grinder to his carb insides didn't have a clue what they were doing. After they screwed it up, he tried to get it going again and he now knows he need a fresh carburetor as he is fed up with the current one and considers it about worth a bullet.
If someone sells him a good working condition carburetor off a running breaker bike, he won't pay more than an arm to get his 400 going again.