The Monkey rebuilds his Carbs

[flips]

I rebuilt mine recently.The allen head screw mod is definitely worth it  .I was tired of the sad looking tops so went with a splash of colour.Almost went the whole hog and nearly bought a can of plasti dip for the fuel hose guide....


Keep up the good work.

Cheers

Jeff P

[FJmonkey]

Looking well prepared...... (I`m assuming you don`t have a cat anymore) 

Of all the common mistakes that is one I have done yet. When I have the cover off the keys are in the house. I did dump a boat load of oil out of my old Chevy once. I did not notice that the rubber gasket did not come off with the old filter. Luckily my wife was there when I started it and she said "Why is all that oil coming out"?

[The General]

I rebuilt mine recently.The allen head screw mod is definitely worth it  .I was tired of the sad looking tops so went with a splash of colour.Almost went the whole hog and nearly bought a can of plasti dip for the fuel hose guide....

Keep up the good work.

Cheers

Jeff P

Is that....are you sure those carb tops aren`t...Pink? Hey X-Ray, I got Blue Plasti dip ...Quick while ya tanks are off.   I think I`ll park mine round tha back of the Bellingen lodge! 

[keand3]

Seeing all of your carbs here and in others posts makes me get embarrassed over mine...
They do need a make over..

[fj12_rider]

They all end up looking like that . I just find they work better for longer with a bit of work . especially the springs and other moving parts . Get a tooth brush and some gas on them and they will come up lovely mate. looking at them I`m pretty sure you will have a bit of a sticky choke rail.

[keand3]

Yup, for now that will have to do 

FJMonkey, had any use for that impact driver yet?? 

Cheers

[FJmonkey]

Yup, for now that will have to do 

FJMonkey, had any use for that impact driver yet?? 

Cheers

Yep, that is how I got the rest of them damn cheep ass screws out without slotting them. Up next, my custom jet removal tool. Not much to look at really but stay tuned...

[NJona86FJ]

WTF is an ALLEN HEAD screw? it's an INHEX socket headed capscrew. not a cheese,button,countersunk screw those ones are definately socket headed.
rant over

[Dan Filetti]

Only large Vice-Grips in my tool box.....

Well, this is one area where bigger isn't always better.  The small vice grips and especially the long nose small vice grips are extremely useful for lots of jobs that their bigger brothers can't get near.  Buy and try a pair, you won't be unhappy.

Arnie

+1. I use my "needle nose" vice grips frequently.

Dan

[rktmanfj]

Only large Vice-Grips in my tool box.....

Well, this is one area where bigger isn't always better.  The small vice grips and especially the long nose small vice grips are extremely useful for lots of jobs that their bigger brothers can't get near.  Buy and try a pair, you won't be unhappy.

Arnie

+1. I use my "needle nose" vice grips frequently.

Dan

Over the years, I've used my needle-nosed Vise Grips at least twice as much as the regular ones.

[X-Ray]

Is that....are you sure those carb tops aren`t...Pink? Hey X-Ray, I got Blue Plasti dip ...Quick while ya tanks are off.   I think I`ll park mine round tha back of the Bellingen lodge!  

Gees looking at the work Jeff has been doing to his bike General, I'll be right around the back of the lodge helping you hold the white flag!! That looks unreal Jeff, nice work  

I didn't know you can get get Plasti Dip in Australia?? Been looking everywhere for it.

[X-Ray]

  Actually, I've just looked at your gallery Jeff, man you have transformed that FJ since I last saw it. It looks fantastic, !!!!!   

[FJmonkey]

The saga continues, I took the last three carbs apart just to be safe. Murphy was fucking right!!! The last three carbs had holes in the slide diaphragms buggering the entire low cost effort I was hoping for... Frank was my hero cuz he sold me his carbs (currently on loan to me) to upgrade to GF. And Randy is my hero for pointing out that I don't have to purchase all the stuff I thought I needed. Thank you both...

Now to some humbling confessions. I took my tank off today to get the carbs off to solve my FP vs GF carb isues (100 miles etc..). I broke a cardinal rule and paid the price. When I swapped out my old carbs I had to convert it from a 2 port 10mm to a single port 6mm. I failed to pay attention to proper hose routing.

I need to fire my damn mechanic, I found this when I took my tank off today...
   

Sometimes I hate my mechanic, the shit I have to deal with....

If the dimwit just followed the proper fuel line routing then the kink would have been avoided.... Like this...



So my carb rebuild has taken a turn and I am swapping some parts over with a SST fastener kit and some RPM parts to convert to GF and I will be ready for the WCR....

FYI, the dimwit is me, I don't let anyone work on my FJ unless I watch.....

[X-Ray]

Yeah, I was a bit paranoid putting my tank back on yesterday, got the hose routing right but had to take the tank off again because I didn't place the clip on the hose where it connects to the fuel petcock. Glad I remembered, 

[Woodsman]

Good job monkey,glad to see someone does stupid stuff as much as i do. Think it's the auldtimers setting in.
I still have a standard air box in mine,does it make things a lot easier for carb removal with the pod filters?
Sean.