• Required reading for all forum users!!!

    Welcome!
    Register to access the full functionality of the GSResources forum. Until you register and activate your account you will not have full forum access, nor will you be able to post or reply to messages.

    A note to new registrants...
    All new forum registrations must be activated via email before you have full access to the forum.

    A Special Note about Email accounts!
    DO NOT SIGN UP USING hotmail, outlook, gmx, sbcglobal, att, bellsouth or email.com. They delete our forum signup emails.

    A note to old forum members...
    I receive numerous requests from people who can no longer log in because their accounts were deleted. As mentioned in the forum FAQ, user accounts are deleted if you haven't logged in for the past 6 months. If you can't log in, then create a new forum account. If you don't get an error message, then check your email account for an activation message. If you get a message stating that the email address is already in use, then your account still exists so follow the instructions in the forum FAQ for resetting your password.

    Have you forgotten your password or have a new email address? Then read the forum FAQ for details on how to reset it.

    Any email requests for "can't log in anymore" problems or "lost my password" problems will be deleted. Read the forum FAQ and follow the instructions there - that's what we have one for...

  • Returning Visitors

    If you are a returning visitor who never received your confirmation email, then odds are your email provider is blockinig emails from our server. The only thing that can be done to get around this is you will have to try creating another forum account using an email address from another domain.

    If you are a returning visitor to the forum and can't log in using your old forum name and password but used to be able to then chances are your account is deleted. Purges of the databases are done regularly. You will have to create a new forum account and you should be all set.

VM Fuel Mixture Screw

  • Thread starter Thread starter Adler
  • Start date Start date
A

Adler

Guest
So Im busy rebuilding my carbs and I've just started putting in the fuel and air screws according to the VM rebuild guide (1 turn out for fuel and 1 and 1/4 for air) and I notice that the fuel screw doesnt go in as far as i remember! weird... So I back it out and... OMG WTF!!! My nice sharp fuel screw is now bent at the end!!! I take a gander into the hole with a flashlight and ALL the fuel screw holes have nice little ends of fuel screw jammed in... Thanks Mr. PO.

How do I get the things out? And how do I get a new sharp fuel screw?
 
Reach through the carb throat, see if you can feel the points sticking through.
If you can, take a Phillips screwdriver or other similar tool, roll it over the point, it might just push it enough to dislodge it.
Otherwise, you will have to bend a very small wire to poke it through. Be careful, though that you don't enlarge the hole.

.
 
I just had to do the same thing this week. Only I was the dummy who got it stuck! I tried using a piece of wire but it wasn't quite rigid enough to push it out. But I happened to have a set of tiny flat head screwdrivers (the kind you use for fixing eyeglasses) and used the corner of the screwdriver to poke it out. It worked like a charm and didn't damage the tiny hole. If you don't have any tiny screwdrivers you can get them for just a couple dollars at Harbor Freight. Good luck.
 
Adler said:
So Im busy rebuilding my carbs and I've just started putting in the fuel and air screws according to the VM rebuild guide (1 turn out for fuel and 1 and 1/4 for air) and I notice that the fuel screw doesnt go in as far as i remember! weird... So I back it out and... OMG WTF!!! My nice sharp fuel screw is now bent at the end!!! I take a gander into the hole with a flashlight and ALL the fuel screw holes have nice little ends of fuel screw jammed in... Thanks Mr. PO.

How do I get the things out? And how do I get a new sharp fuel screw?
Click to expand...
Ohhhhhhh.....that's not good...that's not good at all. No worries though, well not too much anyways. If you check my history of posts you'll see a lengthy one taking out stuck fuel screws including the final result of hammer and punch "don't try this at home". If they don't just fall out on their own, there's many methods of getting them out. Boiling in water, using a thin tool across the tip of the fuel screw in hopes of knocking it down (if it's sticking out of the hole) and a few others. Do a search, there's lots of posts, almost as much as "broken exhaust head bolt".
 
well none of them are sticking up really, and I tried to poke them out with a dental pick... nothing, They are really in there. Kindof tempted to go buy a teensy drill bit and go nuts but that seems like a bad idea....
 
I have used a pair of needle nose pliers and a piece of a safety pin ( a larger one so it would have some strength bend the end and use it
 
A long and sharp awl works well. Push the tip backwards working from the carb throat side. Regarding finding new fuel screws, it's difficult. K&L GS750 carb rebuild kits come with the screws, and there was a member here that sharpened his old screws to get the tip back which seems like one of those nothing to loose things. Worth a try.
 
Well I've tried just about everything... Mr. PO must be a gorilla (or more likely he put the broken screws in after they broke and pushed the tips in tight). Luckily I have a backup set of carbs, so I'll switch over to that set and return to these ones some other time. Keep up with suggestions if you have them, I dont want these to be junk!
 
A dental pick works well for getting broken tips out. They sell them at harbor freight.
 
almarconi said:
A dental pick works well for getting broken tips out. They sell them at harbor freight.
Click to expand...

I tried a dental pick, no luck, next thing i may try is heating it then using a dental pick... and maybe throw some liquid wrench in the mix too.
 
Adler said:
I tried a dental pick, no luck, next thing i may try is heating it then using a dental pick... and maybe throw some liquid wrench in the mix too.
Click to expand...

Letting a little PB Blaster soak in there might do the trick. That stuff is like magic!
 
On the topic of procuring new screws, I went the route of sharpening one of my many destroyed ones. My methods were simple, I put the screw in a drill and I mounted a dremel in a vice with a sharpening stone bit. Turned on the dremel to make a kindof mini desk grinder. Then I spun the screw while touching it to the dremel. The first time I was way too heavy handed and I ended up with a VERY sharp, way too small needle. The second time I was more cautious and I think the result is usable!

IMAGE_082.jpg


Here we have an original screw, my usable one and my too small failure.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top