savagesarah
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Hi Y'all, My poor ol' girl hasnt gone over a 100 miles in the past 8-9 years, the last time I started it, it ran like crap, the p.o. had told me when I bought it that it needed a carb overhaul. He tried to clear it up by dumping some gas additive into the tank, and boy did that fuel smell strange! So I poured over all of the posts I could find about the carb and petcock problems, removed the carb and have it apart on the workbench (no, its not my first carb overhaul). It looks pretty clean actually, but I put it in for a soak in carb cleaner, and went about rinsing some of the foul smelling gasoline out of the tank (with the petcock still attached). No matter what position I had the petcock in, fuel would dribble out, and I decided to switch it to the manual raptor (since all of my previous bikes have always had manual ones, I'm used to switching it off after riding). As a side note, I had a little scooter moped for a couple of years, it would die going up a hill because it didnt generate enough vacuum to hold the petcock open. So I have had the other end of the vacuum petcock problem already. The next thing I will do before reassembly is pull the plug over the idle mixture screw (idle air bleed? whatever). At this point I dont want to do any further mods, like re-jetting until I get it back together and try it. Eventually tho, I would like to ditch the muffler with something throaty and install a K and N air filter, so I can wake up the performance a bit. I realize that will require rejetting and fussing, but I will save that for the rainy season. Anything else you guys can think of I should do while the carb is apart? The bike is an '86 with just over 6K on the clock (yes, thats right-garage potato) I suspect the lack of riding will have taken its toll on other things, but I think I need to get it running and rideable just to figure out what. So, your thoughts? thanks in advance
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