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Looking for some needle jets

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These seem to be unobtainium, but it might be worth a shot.

I am trying to find a set of (4) type 258 needle jets for Mikuni VM carbs, size 0-5 and/or 0-3. They were OEM in Kawasaki and Suzuki 4-cylinder models in the late 70s. I would consider buying a bank of carbs if they had the right jets.

These sizes were never available from Mikuni, and now they are discontinued by Suzuki and Kawasaki.

Thanks !
 
Fred, I may try and get some of these from Keyster in Japan - the only issue is ordering 100 of them at a time - so if I can get a few advance orders it would help. I just received a set of needle jets for the early Z1 carbs and they work well, so I may expand and go for some of the more popular ones like these. They're a little expensive - as they were specially made for us - the likely cost would be in the $5-$6 each range each (although far cheaper than the Kawasaki price of $20 each...). We might need to get the matching needle to create a usable pair as this series was installed with a few variants in size.

How much of a hurry are you in? It would likely take a minimum of 2 months to get them.
 
Is this what you are looking for? They are off a set of VM28SS carbs, GS1000S
 
Try (motorcyclecarbs.com) they had pilot jets for gs1000g and they are very helpful.
 
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Hi Jeff,

Don't sweat it right now. I will try another combination using the 0-6s and see how that turns out.

Triker Bob, no one has these needle jets, it seems.
 
Farmer Fred said:
Hi Jeff,

Don't sweat it right now. I will try another combination using the 0-6s and see how that turns out.

Triker Bob, no one has these needle jets, it seems.
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Did you see my post? :?
 
Fred, let me know how it works out - if those needles don't work, I probably have some spare 5DL31's - they are the needles used in a handful of KZ1000's and all the 29mm Mikuni smoothbores - nice manageable taper on them
 
jeff.saunders said:
Fred, let me know how it works out - if those needles don't work, I probably have some spare 5DL31's - they are the needles used in a handful of KZ1000's and all the 29mm Mikuni smoothbores - nice manageable taper on them
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I have a set of 5DL31s too. Got em from some Brit in NY state! But the generally were matched with the 0-5 needle jets, which I don't have. The 0-6/5CN8 combination was in the 77 KZ1000 (non-LTD).
 
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