Pilots seized?

As part of my ongoing carb adventures I pulled them back off the bike to do a more informed inspection. Found out I have 125 pilots, needles that aren't stock and look worn/have some surface imperfections, and I can't get the pilots out.

I'm tempted to drop in some anti-sieze stuff, but I'm afraid to damage the brass pilot jet and the carb. Maybe I need an L-shaped scredriver to get some leverage, but I don't want to strip it.  Thoughts?

Also, should I buy new needles? I don't know what the current ones are, and they are a bit, i dunno, corroded? Not shiny in several areas, but not gummy residue that I could clean off.

I may try to sync the carbs, but I have no idea how. perhaps thats a good one for a shop.  Also, anybody know the part number for the needle and circlip?

You have 125 pilots ... and you saw that while not being able to get it out ...
Never mind I am being an ass ... but you have 125 mains and your pilots are chewed up ...
I use left handed drills to get it out ... most anything you put in like chemicals will have very little effect ...
Cool.
Srinath.

Try MR Cycles for the part numbers.

I bought several pairs of carbs off ebay to act as experimental rebuilds/cleanups. It was amazing what people did to the carbs with all kinds of crap done to them.

Buy some mineral spirits to soak the parts in. It cleans them up nice. A little canned air to blast out/dry and you are good to go.

To get the plugs out of the adjustments -- I enlarge the hole enough to put the screw extractor into it -- same thing as Srinath's left hand drill item.

Do you have access to a drill press?