While it's not "the Airhead Way", I wouldn't bother rebuilding fuel petcocks. Readily available, and too critical and too cheap ($60 each for new Karcomas, per the MAX site) to dink around with, IMHO.
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R100RT Running Roughly
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While it's not "the Airhead Way", I wouldn't bother rebuilding fuel petcocks. Readily available, and too critical and too cheap ($60 each for new Karcomas, per the MAX site) to dink around with, IMHO.
Moving on to the next steps.
I found petcocks locally so I’ll pick them up this week. I’ll probably get both sides.
Tomorrow we should be working on valves and carbs. Carbs have never been worked on under my ownership and not sure of before that.
Any preferences for carb cleaner? Or any to avoid?
This will be the first time working on carbs for me aside from checking the float bowls so any words of wisdom or helpful hints are appreciated.
I found petcocks locally so I’ll pick them up this week. I’ll probably get both sides.
Tomorrow we should be working on valves and carbs. Carbs have never been worked on under my ownership and not sure of before that.
Any preferences for carb cleaner? Or any to avoid?
This will be the first time working on carbs for me aside from checking the float bowls so any words of wisdom or helpful hints are appreciated.
Have fun riding it...
Finding the source of the missing fuel was important. I had a half tank of fuel wind up in the crank case by the way which is how I know that one should never trust a petcock. There is good indication in your text that the idle jet / idle circuit are to blame. Giving your carbs a bath should help. Hopefully that does the trick. Diagnosing a problem by keyboard I can almost hear the "idle and sputter". 'Sputter and cough'. Silence ~ Give me video chat with a motor.
Finding the source of the missing fuel was important. I had a half tank of fuel wind up in the crank case by the way which is how I know that one should never trust a petcock. There is good indication in your text that the idle jet / idle circuit are to blame. Giving your carbs a bath should help. Hopefully that does the trick. Diagnosing a problem by keyboard I can almost hear the "idle and sputter". 'Sputter and cough'. Silence ~ Give me video chat with a motor.
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