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Can I get to the needles on my CV carbs without using a saw?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Kit Carsick
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there is...take it to the dealership or find a fellow GSer in th area that knows carbs and ask for a house call. And your Honda prolly did have Mikuni VM 26s... These are VM26SS carbs
 
well now you get to mess it up!! Now thats special! LMAO. Youll do just fine..one step at a time and youll have the slides in your hands in no time.
 
Kit Carsick said:
I've had to enlist the help of a neighbor to get my airbox off one too many times. I'm way behind on a lot of work that needs to be done to Methuselah, and I've been procrastinating for like two years because that box is in the way. Besides, I routinely derestrict every engine I get my hands on. It's just Nature's Way.
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???

The airbox is held on with 2 bolts and it falls out once the carbs are removed

There's really no restriction in the airbox (I have one with and one without (with 29 SB))

Plus, you'd really rather rode a Puch Moped, rather than a GS 1000?
 
Big T said:
???

The airbox....falls out once the carbs are removed

There's really no restriction in the airbox (I have one with and one without (with 29 SB))

Plus, you'd really rather rode a Puch Moped, rather than a GS 1000?
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The airbox makes it next to impossible to remove the carbs. I don't know what 29 SB means. I might be able to accept that there's no restriction in the airbox though, except that bikes tend to run lean without them, and I've never seen a track bike that had one.

Sometimes I ride a moped, sometimes I ride a streetbike, sometimes I ride a dirtbike. There's a right tool for every job. I know for darn sure I'd rather wrench on a Puch. It's really rewarding to get a bike that was designed to destroy itself at 26MPH to do 50. Those bikes are absolutely no nonsense. Absolutely Spartan. My Magnum has a total of three wires in the harness. Doesn't even have lights. I've held a running moped engine hooked up to an I.V. in my hands. Plus they're weird. All different. Plus there are no rules. Case induction? No problem. I'll TIG the intake right there. Reed valves? Ok. Give me a dremel tool, some JB Weld and a piece of 5/8" plexiglass, I'll put them right here. Variator? Dual variators? Who knows? Sure! Make it work.
 
The Mikunis are no more complex than what you are used to working on, just different, and you are not used to them, so you think they are hard. That's all.
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Some of the guys thrive on the VM carbs, others of us live for the BS-series of CV-type carbs.
Apparently, I can remove the carbs from my 850, replace all the o-rings and get them back on the bike in about the time it takes you to "overhaul [your] magnum".

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Kit Carsick said:
The airbox makes it next to impossible to remove the carbs. I don't know what 29 SB means. I might be able to accept that there's no restriction in the airbox though, except that bikes tend to run lean without them, and I've never seen a track bike that had one.
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I can pull the carb rack in about 15 minutes, start to finish

But, I only need to do it every few years (I've owned it for 33 years)

29 smoothbore carbs are THE period piece of induction

Track bikes with carbs are rejetted, most road racers have some filtration
 
chuck hahn said:
there is...take it to the dealership or find a fellow GSer in th area that knows carbs and ask for a house call. And your Honda prolly did have Mikuni VM 26s... These are VM26SS carbs
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I have not personally seen a Honda that came with Mikuni carbs. Every one I have seen had Keihin.
 
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