It’s a V4 isn’t it? are both banks stuck?
Yeah, it’s one complete unit.
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Three Allen bolts and two jubilee clips and the seat, tank and airbox are off. Actually getting the carbs off might take a bit longer. It’s has an air bleed off system to make the mix richer at high revs so it’s all a bit tubey.
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Labels are your friend there!
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Well, a bit of success this evening. I’ve managed to get the piston out of the clutch master cylinder so I can continue rebuilding it.
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Sort of related. Do any of you own and can recommend a small parts washer?
No. I WD40 it, scrub it with a toothbrush then blow it off with an airline. If that doesn’t work I get someone else to do it. Leo from TT 1.0 was the person to ask and he said sonic cleaning will only do so much and not remove the sort of grime I have on my carbs which isn’t that bad, it’s only petrol slop.
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Funnily enough I was talking to a cycling club mate about this last week. He has an ultra-sonic cleaning bath at home and he said you’d be surprised how clean something needs to be before it goes in there.
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Popped over to a local bike night; exhaust didn’t drop off which is a bonus.
The new Rocket is growing on me, more of a muscle bike/Street fighter look than mine, engine up to 2.5L and TTS have a supercharger kit on the go for it
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What’s the top bike, a GSX?
Yeah I think it’s a GSX, definitely not GSXR, fins are too big so it’s a big old air cooled something in a Spondon big tube frame and Ducati 916 seat unit.
If you look up Streetfighter in the dictionary there’ll probably be a picture of that.
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Yeah it does look good. Looks like Street Triple lights?
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Could be or Bates, they’re the go to custom headlights but you may as well bluetack a candle to the front so Triumph would be a better bet.
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I bet he doesn’t get many SMIDSYs! 
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That’s me!
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Boss! 
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I got a recommendation from one of the Facebook groups of a chap who renovates carbs and specialises in Mikuni so I sent them off and immediately panicked that’d I’d fallen for a scam. I didn’t look this chap up or do any leg work.
However, he phoned yesterday and he’s a really nice person, said they’re actually in good shape and don’t need bead or vapour blasting and he can clean them up with solvent and sonic baths. Bead or vapour blasting would take them away from original and change the look - sounds like he’s the right person for the job. Said he’d replace the gaskets and set them up ready to go “they’ll be like new”.
Top bombing. £80 per carb plus parts.
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Excellent. As we move to the EV era, those skills be like rocking horse shit.