CV Carburetor Question and Help

What do you think it also maybe?
Found a small leak on the manifold with the carb cleaner, at a high idle changed but minor. Ordered them from the mainland may take a few days. Once they are here will replace them and go back to the original set-up on the carb. 180 and 42 jets, and put the needle back. Will keep you advised.

hotroadking and FLHTbiker running a 42 for the pilot. I just replaced the cable in the parts I got from the states, brand new same size cable from Harley, is there anyway of checking this to see it is closing while I have the Carb Off. I will remove it tonight and clean it very good and will update you asap when I get the manifold seals.
Thank you for the info
Marc

Make sure that when you swaped the choke cable valve from one cable to the othe that the spring is seat correctly on the choke passage valve (the brass piece that slides back and forth also that the paper gasket is not covering the breather passage also it will make tje carb run full rich !

Yeah, it's only a short cable ,you don't want sharp bends in the routing,try it with it hanging loose...you should been lean,not fat with a 42 pilot jet

Here's a CV & Mik choke cable...Bottom pic shows where a HD cable can hang up...

http://www.mikuni.com/pdf/how_to_choke_cable.pdf

You guys are the best, going to look at all the info you sent and check it all, pulled the manifold yesterday ordered the seals and new flanges yesterday they have to come from the Harley Dealer on the mainland which take a few days. The seals were original from 1996, they showed some blow by on the outside edges. Going to clean it all up today, making sure the seals will sit properly. I do have the service manual and picked up some tips on the net. Will keep you updated asap when done.
Thanks Again
Marc

I sure will, More cows here than people LOL, My Idea is to get to the Mainland Portugal and tour Eroupe

If the maanifold was leaking bad the unmetered air would have caused a lean condition not a rich boys the plugs would look clean not black and sooty! Boys !

Agree with B/P Back to the start, no large change in elevation, ran good before shipped. Doe's it start crisp with no throttle hot, or long crank/ black smoke =possible float problem= dropped in shipping? The other thing is choke/ enrichner? Have watched the thread, humidty/air density should be a small tuning factor not a huge change. Look at history and think outside the box as in what and where did the change occur. jmo

Ok stock jetting he had before with a clean carb and the cv performance kit .it should run tits with the new coil wires and plugs . You need to go back to the carb and make sure the slide area is assembled in the correct order is the needle jet and tube assembled in the proper order . And if not look at the cv performance assembly picture ken has listed in the cv performance forum tech area here on the site i have a feeling the fuel is not being controlled out of the main jet area .

My guess is in the carb as B/P thinks. You need to backtrack and check the carb and enrichner close. The carb worked good before you got there but there have been a lot of changes since you got there. Any chance you can use a carb from another bike for a ride with fresh plugs?

Good read fellas... . If it was running good when it was at sea level in the states, I would think it would be close to the same on an island. The elevation issue is oxygen/fuel mix. I do not think humid air will cause much of an issue. Is it possible the gas you are getting is funky or possibly went bad?

Hey Guys, Ordered the parts, new manifold flanges and seals are on they way, going to go back to the original set-up on the carb when I put it back together seeing it was running good when I first got here. Take a bit of time to get parts here so soon as I get them hopefully (fingers cross) it will run a lot better. The Gas was New full tank when it started out after changing the coil and wires. As far as trying another Carb try, that can't happen here, there is only 35 Harleys here and I would say 40% of them are FI. I am going to be very diligent putting it back together just one question what is the best way to tork theses manifold bolts? They are allen head on all 4 of them.