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- Jul 24, 2005
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Hey guys, just finished rebuilding a set of 932 Amals. The old carbys had no pilot jets in them, which i thought was quite weird, but those carbs ran ok on the bike, so I didnt think much of it. On the rebuild job, I got nearly new bodies and slides, I reasembled them, this time with some pilot jets. I mounted everything back onto the bike, left filter off because I intended to spray some carby cleaner in them just in case I misssed some dirt on rebuild. The bike ran great at a stand still without the filter, revved great, still gotta work on idle, took her on the road for a second, midrange(needle) is too lean, but filter was off so...... I put on filter, and TRIED to crank it up. It would not crank, untill I held it at half throttle, when I got it running, it would run at no less than 1/4 throttle (pilot circuit, I think?) Took filter back off, ran great like first time, left it running, tried to put on filter, when there was no gap between filter and carb mouth, bike would die, unless I was over 1/4 throttle. Screwed in pilot screws at max half a turn. On rebuild I raised clip one notch because she was running very rich, put in 220 mains, 106 needle(stock), it has to be the fact that I put in the pilot jets, yes??????? :?: 72 Fastback Combat