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Gs 550 fuel screw troubles

chuck hahn

chuck hahn

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I was at a buddies that soon to be a member here. He is a mechanic at Killeen Power Sports and does side jobs at home. Someone brought over her 78(?) 550 that a local shop had worked on and messed up her carbs. They turned the fuel screws so tightly in that ALL FOUR tips are snapped off and jammed in the holes. We can see the ends down in the tower holes. He has tried to use a wire and pins to push themn tips oput of the holes but to no avail. They are really jammed. Any suggestions as to how to get them out and save these carbs??
 
BassCliff has a tutorial for this on his site.
Did you take a look at it?
 
chuck hahn said:
I was at a buddies that soon to be a member here. He is a mechanic at Killeen Power Sports and does side jobs at home. Someone brought over her 78(?) 550 that a local shop had worked on and messed up her carbs. They turned the fuel screws so tightly in that ALL FOUR tips are snapped off and jammed in the holes. We can see the ends down in the tower holes. He has tried to use a wire and pins to push themn tips oput of the holes but to no avail. They are really jammed. Any suggestions as to how to get them out and save these carbs??
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A drift and a look at the tutorial. YAH NEWB!
 
There is is post on dealing with the broken tips on the BC website.
Make an effort. Do a search. And lighten up we are all friends here.
 
I was just over there and saw the tutorial..I will let Randy know of this. He is gonna join here soon, so if you see a guy called Jap Bike Randy that will be him.
 
Hey..what can i say!! I have never broken off a screw in any set of carbs I have ever worked on. Randy inherited the problem from some hack at supposed shop that knew what they were doing. That didnt prove to be the case so Randy took on the task of getting her bike back and running.
 
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