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Any clue what side the spring goes on?
- Thread starter PEPXS400
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MrStubb
XS400 Addict
Let me go pull one of my carbs apart & I'll get back to you in a few minutes!!! I need to start working on mine soon any way!!!
As second photo. Insert needle, then washer, then spring.
MrStubb
XS400 Addict
YEP My suspicions were correct!!! That little spring go's on TOP of the spacer which sits on top of the clip. It's there so if the needle hits resistance sliding back into the jet below it has some give instead of just sticking or worse yet Breaking off.
PEPXS400
XS400 Enthusiast
I was thinking it was the second so the little nipple seats in the hole at the bottom.
Mr Stubb, you need to tear yours apart. Your are awesome for wanting to do that!!
Thanks guys!!
Mr Stubb, you need to tear yours apart. Your are awesome for wanting to do that!!
Thanks guys!!
PEPXS400
XS400 Enthusiast
Thanks dude!!
PEPXS400
XS400 Enthusiast
PEPXS400
XS400 Enthusiast
As discussed often here, those filters will probably give you no end of problems. You really should consider other options.
PEPXS400
XS400 Enthusiast
I'm actually going to run them after the H-pipe. Just put them on for the picture. I have been trying to weld up an H-pipe that would work with them. So far can't get the right air flow.
I appreciate the concern though!!
Thxs!!
I appreciate the concern though!!
Thxs!!
MrStubb
XS400 Addict
Awesome?? ME?? Naw just trying to help a fellow Yamaha addict get his fix. Besides It gave e a reason to start yet another project. I see you drank the coolaid & bought a set of THOSE filters. I've a set on mine & Dave is right. They are a problem. I was able to put them on my stock H pipe. I took some stainless tube & cut a couple 2" long sleeves that insert into the H pipe. Then I mounted the filters on the H pipe over the clamp grooves & tightened them down. But my carbs are from a different year & modified for a built up 360. They still run rich but the bike runs well enough that I'd trust it on short to medium hops round town.
XSLeo
XS400 Junkie
Those pleated element filters cause excessive turbulance in the airflow through the carbs disrupting the vacuum signal for the slides, this causes an off idle flat spot and steady cruising speed flutter. The shorter and more tapered the more the effect.
You can spend weeks trying to tune these out or put on a round foam filters. about 4 inches long are about right. I use Uni Filters. I like the two layer units. The coarser out layer traps big stuff while the finer inner layer gets the little stuff.
Leo
You can spend weeks trying to tune these out or put on a round foam filters. about 4 inches long are about right. I use Uni Filters. I like the two layer units. The coarser out layer traps big stuff while the finer inner layer gets the little stuff.
Leo
