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Message: <blockquote data-quote="joedrum" data-source="post: 11285" data-attributes="member: 98">yeah kirk those o rings seal good without a lot of torque and you can get in big trouble there if the bolt gets stuck in the head ....i dont know what torque is but less is good on something thats going on and off ....it probably is the carb the slide spring could be weak ...on my 1000 its always no.4 carb that rears its ugly head on me ....if your in it big time with carbs off again just clear your head and go though everything again use tin foil to clean slide walls ....it may be somthing that was done to that carb by someone else that has made it different than the others so look for any difference closely as compaired to the others....the reason that makes the motors so good and long lasting is the same reason that makes the carbs so difficult sitting o top of the motor and and not in the ideal place with gravity trying to run everything down into the motor ....but im sure your going to get this worked out kirk ....ive got several carb racks i have to work on and im not sure im going to have any better time of it than you are .... ihave two 1100 carb racks an 80 and 83  the 80 is completly stuck and the 83 are almost stuck ....but the ones i have to work on are 1000 carb racks im going to use on 1200 projects ive got going on ......</blockquote>