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Offline Doggie

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K&L carb rebuilding kits
« on: July 29, 2011, 08:36:20 PM »
Any thoughts on buying K&L carb rebuilding kits?

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Re: K&L carb rebuilding kits
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2011, 08:45:54 PM »
Better than Keyster by far. You may want to keep your stock Honda needles & needle jets though. or replace with OEM Honda. Don't throw out the ones that come with the kit though. You may wanna experiment with them.
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Re: K&L carb rebuilding kits
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2011, 08:51:40 PM »
I bought a few sets of them, but never used their needles. The jets are 110,  the bowl gaskets are a bit "soft" and need to be placed carefully so they don't move out of place. mixture screws seemed OK, and their float valves did not leak (but looked less "refined" than OEM)

If your hard parts are OK, and the carbs do not drip fuel, I would just buy the bowl gaskets.

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Re: K&L carb rebuilding kits
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2011, 09:05:02 PM »
Thanks for the input. I know I have read about the Keyster
kits being not up to par.
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