Topic: carb issue w/ solution

[snoop]

While riding, my engine performance went way down.  When I put it in neutral,  it would rev up very nicely.  It lost about 75% of low end torque. It would almost stall going in to 1st.  I could reach  very high speeds though.   I was thinking a main jet had fallen out but that was impossible on my 550 being it has those spring clips.  I took em apart and one of the slow jets had vibrated out.  I love it when it is so simple.

[dusterdude]

groovy,glad you found it

[merc2dogs]

 A few years ago I rebuilt some carbs for a buddy.
 complete rebuild, boiled, new jets, floats everything, the idle jets they sent were the wrong style for the carbs so since it was a rush job I decided to clean and re-use the old idle jets.
 reassembled, boxed them up and dropped them off in the morning on the way to work, that evening while working on another bike, I found the baby food jar with the idle jets still soaking.

 needless to say, the bike didn't run that well.

Ken