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My wife has not been riding much this year at all since she typically only rides on "perfect" weekend days and we spent nearly every "perfect" weekend day boating this Summer. Her bike still had gas from last Fall in it and she complained it was running terribly. I fired it up and confirmed that the pilot jets were clogged. I was not looking forward to pulling the carbs and cleaning them so I thought I'd try a lazier approach and it worked wonderfully.
Lazy man's way to clean carbs:
1. Attach clear tubing to bowl drain.
2. Raise other end of tubing well above carb height.
3. Open drain screw.
4. Blow hard into tube to slosh fuel around.
5. Immediately lower tubing below carb and drain fuel into coffee can while fuel is still disturbed from step 4.
6. When carb is empty, raise tubing above carb height again.
7. Attach small funnel to tubing.
8. Pour gas and Techron mix (3:1) into funnel to refill carb bowls.
9. Close drain
10. Remove tubing
11. Repeat 1-10 for other carbs.
12. Drain tank and add fresh techron treated fuel at the standard 128:1 ratio.
13. Start (will be a bitch to start with all that Techron in the bowls) and ride until it runs perfectly.
Took about 1.5 hours all told, including a 50 mile ride. Runs great now. Much less work than pulling carbs. Maybe it'll work for you too...
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