Carbs

Being an FI guy I found the carbs quaint and pequliar, until I opened them up and read the manual (or the 'vagunal' as i re-christened it) and read up on all things carby.

Here they are in all their mechanical glory after I cleaned the outside (the easy part)

So, the engine shoed evidence of a leak and after reading up it seemed the likely culprit was the needle valve seat o rings. 1.5 x 7mm viton seals are the job to fix this I believe.

When i pulled the bowls off and removed the floats and needle valve and seat the cause of the leak was obvious.

The flaots, needle valve and diaphragm/slide were good. Gave them a clean and coating of silicone to the diaphragm.

Needle valve was on standard setting, minimal wear thanfully.

My little ultra sonic cleaner that I bought ages ago in advance of such a job came in handy

New float gaskets and a buckets of carb cleaner later they were all buttoned up with new stainless allen bolts replacing the horrible philips jobbies.