For everyone's "SA", Murray carbs are frequently recommended by members of the Suzuki Savage Int'l group on FB.

The stock jets 2009 S40 Calif.  What did I miss?

Gary_in_NJ wrote on 12/28/20 at 15:23:10:

If you don't have a washer under the main, it can be sucked up or follow the needle when it goes up, yielding poor performance.

The stock carb still has a restricted passageway or the slide wasn't functioning properly.  I wouldn't have done the white spacer mod until I had it functioning properly, but that wouldn't have made much of a difference anyway.

The carb you got from Murray's was obviously prejetted for the LS650 so you're good to go.

" alt="" title="" border="0" />Quote " If you mistakenly put the spacer underneath and the spring on top the bike won't run well."

I well remember that the spacer sat right on top of the c-clip... and then the spring.....no tiny washer under the c-clip...just spacer, c-clip, spring.

I could not figure out how to get the needle jet out!  So I sprayed it with carb cleaner and soaked it in the one gallon carb cleaner.  It was a wrestling match to get the float jet out....had to destroy it with vice grips.