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Message: <blockquote data-quote="joedrum" data-source="post: 20100" data-attributes="member: 98">man i just finish with the two carb sets ...obviously the carbs had a flash fire inside them ....blew two slidea apart and smashed the end on the inner slide....rolled it right up on the outside of it ....and then the butterflys on one set of carbs was blown about 50 degrees pass where it was suppose to stop ....that took forever to figure out ......i must say i was lucky that the 79 rack use most of the same parts .....everybody knows that i use atf in the gas ....when i took the mongruels carbs apart everything was clean as can be ....the jets ...the carb bodys...floats ....hardware .....just in excellent shape ....the things that werent good was all was all the through shafts everyone of then leaked ..... and over aggressive carb job about 8yrs ago started it slow demiss i think probably.....but theres at least 60,000 miles on the carbs since last off the bike and the insides look like they were just done im so impressed in no way did ithink they would look like this .......antway im hoping to be done tomarrow as for cleaning and fixing things ....there was just no wat i could send money on this rack before seeing if it going to work out ......i dont think ive ever tried to fix such a bunch of junk like these carbs ......i knew something big had to happen to blow the lower slides right through the top peice of the slide :doh:  :hihihi:  :whistling:  :mrgreen:</blockquote>

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