Soaking the carbs in most carb cleaners with the seals or any other rubber
in it, will distort or ruin the seal or rubber and cause more problems.
"CS" wrote in message
> "acof911" wrote in message
>
> <snip>
>> you really have to check out www.xs11.com
>>
>> I run both petcocks open. FYI the petcock handle points to the desired
>> setting.
>> Cleaning carbs is not that difficult and there are excellent articles
>> explaining how to do it on that web site. I did mine in about 2 hrs.
>> and the only new parts I needed were new needle valves and seats.There
>> are two styles, rubber tipped for the newer xs11s and brass for the
>> older style. They are available from lots of folks on ebay.
>> Syncing made a big difference for my bike, it runs a lot better after
>> a thorough cleaning and a sync.
>
> Thanks for the tips!
>
>> whatever you do don't let the shop soak them in carb cleaner.
>> Hopefully they have an "old head" mechanic there who can work on your
>> bike properly.
>
> Again, thanks for the tips, but I am confused about the whole soak/don't
> soak thing with carbs.
>
> CS
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