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Old March 16th, 2015, 02:51 PM   #1
RcTechnologies
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Name: Russ
Location: California
Join Date: Mar 2015

Motorcycle(s): '12 EX250JC

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Full service manual says to turnout one carb pilot more than the other....why?

And for good reason. Were at 9,000 mi and doing all maintenance items on the list, incl carb cleaning and valve checks. ALL is good.
For curiosity we welded up a "tuning purposes only" exhaust system that isolated the cylinders and housed O2 sensors. After syncing within 1 mm Hg one side had to be enrichened drastically to make the O2 sensors match, as the full service maual says "Pilot Screw Setting: #L: 2 1/2 #R: 1 3/4" (pg 3-16). Plugs look great now. But the question still burns, Why'd the engineers at Kawi do this, and why do the O2 sensors concur?

Note: the factory setup and tune (sync and pilot turns) makes one cylinder work substantially harder than the other.

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