jet kits

[simi_ed]

I didn't want to set the commie haters off)
:-)

I resemble that remark 

[yamaha fj rider]

If you bother to search back through the FILES section and other literature, you'll find that we've been discussing carb settings (including shimming the stock needles) for more than 10 years.  

The carb cleaning instructions were written at least 10 years ago and we discussed detailed carb theory back on the Yahoo Group.  Much (if not all) of that material was brought forward to this site.  There's a ton of info about carbs that you've evidently not seen.

Such information may not have been available to you, but it has been on here forever.

And if you're at 4000+ feet, there's no way your stock equipment was lean enough to come close to causing damage (unless something was clogged up).  At 500 ft and 100+ temperatures in the summer, my FJ would have been a melted lump of metal years ago when the instructions in my original DJ kit told me NOT to re-install the stock plastic spacer.  I ran the needles at least 3 "grooves" leaner than stock for several years before figuring out the spacer was supposed to be installed.  Granted, the 144 pilot jets probably helped.  But for years, my plugs came out whiter than the day they were installed.

Yamaha couldn't (wouldn't) take the chance of jetting engines so lean that it would ruin them.  

DavidR.

I looked up yahoo groups yamaha fj found five it said the oldest was started twelve years ago. I installed jet kit in the summer of 1995 (17 years ago). David I am glad that your FJ was not as lean as mine, but this was my experience. DavidR I once posted "I hope I never get on your bad side" and hope I am not now.

Kurt   

[andyb]

Granted, the 144 pilot jets probably helped.

Those are big, big pilot jets.  40's you meant?

[SlowOldGuy]

Sorry, 144 AIR pilot jets.

DavidR.

[SlowOldGuy]

Hey Kurt,
No problem, that came out a little more "whiney" than it was intended.  No offense intended or taken.

Wouldn't have helped you in '95, but there is a lot of information on carbs here that others (everyone) should take advantage of. 

DavidR.

[FJ1100mjk]

"DavidR I once posted 'I hope I never get on your bad side' and hope I am not now.'

Kurt


Better to be pissed off, than pissed on. Right Dave?

[yamaha fj rider]

Hey Kurt,
No problem, that came out a little more "whiney" than it was intended.  No offense intended or taken.

Wouldn't have helped you in '95, but there is a lot of information on carbs here that others (everyone) should take advantage of. 

DavidR.

DavidR I could not agree more. 

Kurt