question about jetting and cleaning the carbs

[tripleb]

I've got my new jet kit from Buddha  .  I'm planning on doing the rejet sometime this week.  My question is once I have removed and cleaned the carbs and have done the rejet and installed the carbs again will all the fuel levels in the carbs work themselves out?  All I have to do once I've re-installed them is turn on the petcock, pull the choke and start her up and everything will be good?

[The Buddha]

You have to set the floats right and have to eyeball synch the carbs as well as set the air screws. In other words, you just bought the parts, you have to work to jet the carbs. All adjustments etc have to be done on it.
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[rockstar]

I've got my new jet kit from Buddha  .  I'm planning on doing the rejet sometime this week.  My question is once I have removed and cleaned the carbs and have done the rejet and installed the carbs again will all the fuel levels in the carbs work themselves out?  All I have to do once I've re-installed them is turn on the petcock, pull the choke and start her up and everything will be good?

what do you mean exactly?? the carbs being dry when you put them on?


I don't get why you would rejet a stock motor? If I'm correct in saying that rejetting is replacing the main fuel jet with a bigger one for more fuel. dumping more fuel in a motor isn't going to make any power unless you've incresed airflow into the motor.

[The Buddha]

One time I sold a jet kit to one guy, and several years later I go to buy a bikt in SC and the guy gives me a detailed description of the running problems and he gives me a pack of stuff for it ... in it was a clean filter, a few mics bits and a jet pack with the old #2 nylon washers I used to send. Gee whiz ... fat lot of good that did to the running problems ....

Dont be like that.
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Buddha.

[tripleb]

so how do I fill them with fuel after I've cleaned them out?

[The Buddha]

They will fill when on the bike, but you have to set the floats and other stuff I said. setting the floats is different from filling the floats ... setting determines to what height the floats will fill ...
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[rockstar]

wouldn't just turning the petcock to prime fill up the float chamber.

your talking about starting the bike dry after a carb clean/the carb being dry when starting it for the first time?

[tripleb]

yeah, I'm a total n00b when it comes to this stuff, so I am going to ask a lot of dumb questions like this.

Talking about what needs to be done to get the bike ready to go after installing new jets and cleaning out the carbs.  As far as filling up the carbs again so that the engine will run and nothing will be damaged.

[rockstar]

yeah, I'm a total n00b when it comes to this stuff, so I am going to ask a lot of dumb questions like this.

Talking about what needs to be done to get the bike ready to go after installing new jets and cleaning out the carbs.  As far as filling up the carbs again so that the engine will run and nothing will be damaged.

your not going to damage anything. just put back on the carbs and start it. I don't even think syncing is absolutee necessary. I didn't do it the first I cleaned my carbs, not really knowing what I was doing.