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Old November 26th, 2019, 08:02 PM   #28
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Name: Sergey
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Originally Posted by Fixit View Post

Never seen a carb so picky ever.
They are definitely not as tough as my grandfather's Soviet URAL's carbs. That crude piece of machinery managed to be operating on some byproducts of natural gas extraction process back in tough 90ies where the only thing related to gasoline that you could see on gas stations were price tags. My grandpa was able to source that substance somewhere because he was working in the industry. My feeling was that the octane rating of that liquid was close to 20 max as the engine was knocking with even minimal load and 10% of it was water. Draining water from the carb bowls was an item of the pre-ride checklist All the minimum amount of proper gasoline that they were able to source was consumed by my uncle's Jawa 350 which was as picky as these Ninjas Czech DNA would not allow to withstand any abuse.
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