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What fuel screw??? GS850 GL

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I have been reading everything I can on carb rebuild for gs850, but I still keep seeing threads about people adjusting fuel screws on the bottom of the carb and air screws on the top----the only fuel screws on my carbs are just like in the cv rebuild series (i.e.the fuel bowl drain screws) only mixture screws I have are the air screws on top that are supposed to be
1 1/2 turns from lightly seated -correct?--just needed some clarification-thanks
 
Right where the carbs go into the intake (top) there is a cap with a small hole in it. You need to drill it out and yank it out with a screw. Don't drill the top of the idle mixture screw though.
 
It's not really an "air screw", it's an "idle mixture adjustment screw" because it actually controls a mixture, not just air.

Here is where they are, as Chef suggested, they might be under caps.
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There is nothing cast in stone that says they should be at 1 1/2 turns, though. Most of us will set them about 3 turns out as a starting point, then tweak them until the engine will idle at its highest speed, which means the mixture is best. Yours might end up back at 1 1/2 turns. Mine are closer to 2 1/4 to 2 1/2 turns out..

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In '80 they switched to carbs with only one screw. Lotsa folks around here have the older style, with more adjusting screws.
 
Dogma said:
In '80 they switched to carbs with only one screw. Lotsa folks around here have the older style, with more adjusting screws.
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And his signature says he has an '82, so that's what he is seeing, just one screw (per carb).

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thanks guys--i figured they must be talking about earlier models or different carbs
 
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