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Old July 27th, 2017, 02:20 AM   #19
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Name: Bill
Location: Port Huron, Michigan
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Motorcycle(s): 2007 Kawasaki 250 Ninja, 1982 Honda Ascot FT500

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Originally Posted by Demonik View Post
I'll also jump in here, as a noob to the forum and a veteran to the "OMFG my Ninja carbs..." and say that yeah man, your carbs are gonna be rank. They can be fixed in a few hours max.

Just pull em now and don't use that seafoam ****; it is really easy. NEXT TIME, don't store your bike without stabil in the tank and start it every two weeks! Ethanol attaches to the water molecules in fuel now and beats up the brass in the carbs. Doom.

Set aside about 2-3 hours. The night before, watch the video on how to pull the fairings and use the speed rivets properly, and watch the video on how to pull your carbs. Keep track on your bolts in organizers. Pull the tank. Drain that **** out. Drop your tail fairings, drop your battery box, schooch your fender down, airbox backs up and back, schooch your carbs back a tad, sideways and out, off with the bowls, pull the main jets and slow jets, CLEAN them with a scrubby physical method even a wire tie from a bread bag down the jet if you want (but don't gouge them), strip and boil them if you have to, make sure you can 14/10 see daylight again through them again, clean EVERY last spot of visible vergidis (green ****) or it will haunt you for ever) THEN quickly plop it back in the bike, reinstall in about 35 minutes, fresh gas, BAM.

Good luck. There are some REAL smart guys on here you can learn a lot of good things from like RamJet and Ducatiman, if those old dudes don't fight with you first, because they literally have busted and fixed everything on these things.
Ducatiman says all you need is a good toothbrush. In really tough situations he reaches for his Waterpick. Just kidding. Ducatiman said he used a toothbrush in jest.

Bill
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