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Title: oil around intakes?
Post by: Rema1000 on July 23, 2005, 04:15:12 PM

I took my carbs off today to clean the pilots. Looking at the intake ports on the engine, there is a little oil in both intakes. Looking at the butterflies on the carbs' exhausts, there is some black oily crud on the butterflies:

(http://gs500.specialgreen.com/img/butterflies.jpg)

Is this normal?

Title: oil around intakes?
Post by: Rema1000 on July 24, 2005, 11:54:23 AM

I cleaned it up. It turned-out to be a substance like tar: stiff and very sticky. I had to use liquid wrench on a cloth to get it, and the throats around the butterflies clean.

Title: oil around intakes?
Post by: Kerry on July 24, 2005, 03:32:49 PM

Now that you've already cleaned it off ( :oops: ) I'd have to say that NO ... it's not normal.

Title: oil around intakes?
Post by: davipu on July 24, 2005, 07:26:07 PM

being that it's on that side of the carbs do you think it could be a ethanol issue? some kind of additive that is building up?

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