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Hey all!

Well, I recently went through a carb tune up exercise. First, I disassembled and cleaned them all out thoroughly. Then I went ahead and balanced them. After those two steps, I developed a bad flat spot on a slow roll on the throttle. So, I disassembled them again, looked at what jets I had (42/160). So I bought 45 pilots and used the jetting calculators to come up with 155 mains. I popped them in, reassembled and man what difference! It amazes me that I ran that long on a bad carb rig.

So now that that's all done, I got to looking at the throttle cable assembly on the carbs to make sure everything was okay. That's when I noticed the front cable (the one that shuts the butterflies) was rubbing against the metal linkage. It seems like the cable metal piping is a tad bit over so the cable is on a slight diagonal.

Can I just bend the part that the piping mounts to? Did I overlook something when I reassembled? I just don't wanna have the cable snap on me because it chafed through.

Thanks all!
Louis