blubyyou Posted October 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 Temps are changing here. I've went from 70-80 down to the 50-70 range. I don't do much winter riding either. I always mix fresh fuel up. Its never older than a few weeks old. Hell it burns fuel like no other machine I've ever owned lol so its relatively fresh all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blubyyou Posted October 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 Just looked and I have some 145 and 142 mains, 45 and 42 pilots laying around. So I guess I will reset my needle to the center position and throw in some 142 mains. Hopefully it gets better! Might as well put on some new NGK spark plug boots while I'm at it to eliminate that as a problem too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilBanshee Posted October 20, 2011 Report Share Posted October 20, 2011 Just looked and I have some 145 and 142 mains, 45 and 42 pilots laying around. So I guess I will reset my needle to the center position and throw in some 142 mains. Hopefully it gets better! Might as well put on some new NGK spark plug boots while I'm at it to eliminate that as a problem too. Yes for sure. Another thing i have heard of is spark plug gao being out of wack. It will cause the engine to miss fire. IF you have a set of feeler gauges or a plug gap tool. I would do .025-.030 thouge. I run .025. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blubyyou Posted November 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2011 ok so it's been a WHILE since I have been able to touch my banshee with work, kids, blah blah blah..... anyways I just put in 142 mains dropping from the 148's that I had in it. I am currently running on the 4th notch on my needles (1 being at the bottom, 5 at the top). Should I reset it back to the middle clip or just try it out with my smaller mains I just put in? I left the 48 pilots in it even though I think they are a little rich too. I have 45 and 42 pilots if I need them but figured I'd leave them alone until I resolved my problem with getting into the powerband in 4th, 5th, 6th gear. Although the bike is quite lazy down low compared to my friends fmf piped banshee. I assume I need to dial in the mains and needle position then fine tune the pilots. Another stupid question ....when adjusting the idle on pwk 35 airstrikers do I need to adjust both idle screws to achieve proper idle. It seems I can basically get it close on idle with equal turns out and then adjust just one idle screw to get the idle perfect. Also the new carbs have 1 choke per carb....is there every a need to lift up both chokes to get it to start? I've always just used the choke on one carb to get it to start if it's cold and been sitting for a while. Sorry for the dumb questions and I've never used aftermarket carbs on a banshee. Thannks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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