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Three things to say about rejetting my carbs tonight... 1. If I ever meet the guy that decided thoses brass float bowl screws were a good idea I'm going to pimp slap him. 2. If I ever meet Pat (Dinqua) in person, I'm going to kiss him on the mouth (Pat, be glad I can't make it to GA for the rally  ) 3. I've discovered that anytime you drop a screw/bolt/socket while working on a bike it will always, always fall and bounce to the opposite side of the bike.
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Or wedge itself into some inaccessible crevice. Hopefully you replaced the carb bowl screws with the allen heads screws? Turns the ordeal of jet changes into about a 15 minute process, leaving you much more time to find Pat! 
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I am really glad you won't be making it to Ga. Had me scared for a minute. I guess that saying about Texas may be slightly acurate after all, "Nothing in Texas but steers and...."
A word to the wise is not necessary. It is the stupid ones who need the advice.
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Hmmmm, how to address this development.... ------------------------------------------- Another thing I've learned. If you spread a towel/cloth/whatever under the carbs or under/around the 'project that has many small and/or springy parts' nothing will go bouncing across the floor into the various black holes, never to be seen again. If you don't, everything ends up there!!!
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Throb, I did replace the brass screws with stainless allen heads. I now know why everybody said to do so.
Dinqua, all kidding aside, thank you for the carb jetting website. I couldn't have done it without your help. You are certainly appreciated.
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Are you guys talking about the carb screws with the extentions? Or just standard screws but with allen heads? I see both are available.
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I just used the standard allen head screws. One set came with my pipes, but I also have a set of carb screws that my father got from newbonneville.com.
I have seen the extended finger screws you were talking about though. They would be nice to have if you were doing alot of tweaking of your performance settings. I would think after you got things the way you wanted them you would want to go back to the standard allen head screws.
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Should be Riding
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Those bras screw do strip out easily, but the SS bolts will chew out the threaded hole they go into if you are not careful!!
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Benny,
Thanks for pointing that out. I'll be careful if I have to pull them again in the future.
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No prob, I felt one starting to go when I re-jetted last... So I just stopped, and was REAL careful with the other 3 on that cover.
Benny
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"Those bras screw do strip out easily..." I asked my wife about this, but she said she'd never heard of them. All of her bras have metal clasps of some sort, or even plastic ones!
Maybe it's a "back east" thing......
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Dinqua, just to set things straight...
Actually the saying is "nothing in Austin but steers & *%#@!"...home of t.u.(University of Texas to all you non-Aggies).
gig 'em
miles & miles of Texas...
TM
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