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Originally Posted by bell
wheels are off, dropping them off at a local ktm shop tomorrow (i've heard of very good service at this place), the tires should be in on thursday morning.
going to pull the carbs this week and check the jets, etc, if anything is questionable i'll order the rebuild kits 
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A few things about bike carbs just in case you don't know.
Many mid 70's or so and later bikes have the carbs linked together with brackets and choke mechanisms, vent tubes etc. and are typically removed all together as a unit rather than one at a time. Once the whole shooting match is shoehorned out of the bike, the jets, and floats can be serviced without disassembling the carbs from one another. Also, these newer carbs have an upper vacuum type chamber that contains a delicate rubber diaphragm. If you intend to squirt the carb passages with carb cleaner after removing the main and pilot jets,, you will want to carefully take the top covers and slide out the diaphragms and throttle slides prior to spraying the carb bodies (carefully noting how they come apart), as some carb spray cleaners can damage the thin diaphragms.
I simply use four plastic marked bins to keep the parts separate for each carb (I also usually scribe the carb bodies so I do not get confused later about which side is #1 and which side is #4).
