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Re: CV carb needles


From: "Lee C. Bussy" <Sportster@XLrator.com>
Subject: Re: CV carb needles
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Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 07:48:22 -0600

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On Saturday, December 25, 2004, 12:19:24 PM, Smitty wrote:

S> Coming out of the lurk mode to ask if anyone has ever changed the
spring that
S> keeps the slide on a CV carb down?

There is an "SE" spring that you can get that's slightly lighter than
the stock spring.  I( tried it with the stock needle, with the N65C
needle and the N65C with and without that spring.  The spring did seem
to help the throttle response a little but it opened too fast, carb
farted and generally was ill mannered.

With the N65C needle it did a little of the same, did not fart all the
time but surged quite a bit.

Basically the needle change did the richening up I needed and the
spring really didn't help things.

This testing was just on one bike mind you.

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Lee C. Bussy
Kansas City, MO

2005 Sportster Rally Info
http://www.xlrator.com

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