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Hi everyone,
As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
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Thanks for your patience and support!
All 2st About the Mikuni/Keihin swap:
- Thread starter Johnnymannen
- Start date
Rob578
Husqvarna
AA Class
Here's what I ended up with this weekend
170MJ
40PJ
needle top clip (1st slot)
air screw out 2 turns
Starts perfectly cold or hot
VP 110 and Motul 50:1
Temps 90 and close to 100% humidity
It seems a tad lean in the mid range I'll play with the needles and see what I come up with.
Thanks for everyones help
170MJ
40PJ
needle top clip (1st slot)
air screw out 2 turns
Starts perfectly cold or hot
VP 110 and Motul 50:1
Temps 90 and close to 100% humidity
It seems a tad lean in the mid range I'll play with the needles and see what I come up with.
Thanks for everyones help
Johnnymannen
Husqvarna
AA Class
Rob578;101184 said:
Hi Rob. What needle do you use, and what elevation are you at? temp?
motosapiens
Husqvarna
A Class
http://www.keihin-us.com/pwk.htm
on this page, there's a pic of the pwk. from the black screw cap, look down at about the level of the top of the intake, and there's a black plastic screw, slightly angled up and to the right. That's the idle screw. the air screw is also visible as a small brass dot on the left side at the bottom of the intake (or top of the float bowl).
on this page, there's a pic of the pwk. from the black screw cap, look down at about the level of the top of the intake, and there's a black plastic screw, slightly angled up and to the right. That's the idle screw. the air screw is also visible as a small brass dot on the left side at the bottom of the intake (or top of the float bowl).
On mine, i need to turn at least 6 more full turn. Try it by 1 turn at a time. Anyway, you cant broke anything.
Be sure on the beginning to have a little fat pilote jet, (45-48) this will make the bike easier to start. When the screw are set up ok, you can lean the pilot to your preference.
Be sure on the beginning to have a little fat pilote jet, (45-48) this will make the bike easier to start. When the screw are set up ok, you can lean the pilot to your preference.
motosapiens
Husqvarna
A Class
schrode;101847 said:
oh,
even if i turn the idle screw all the way out, my bike will start, but i give it a smidge of gas when i start it.
i think i turned mine a few turns in from stock before i installed it, and that was pretty close to right.
fwiw, after reading that these guys liked the cel and cek in the middle clip, and analyzing my 2-3 kick starts at idaho city, i tried the jd red in the top clip (roughly similar to cel in middle) and it fired up first kick, and in a cursory ride around the neighborhood gave no sign of being too lean. this is at 75-80 degrees, 3000' (that's where i live and tested, not where i ride, lol).
what jetting do you have in there?
will your bike bump start?
motosapiens
Husqvarna
A Class
hrc630;101991 said:Now try the EEL...
why? the bike already makes more power than i can use everywhere. on all my other bikes i generally prefer the c-taper needles to the d-tapers. As long as it starts and runs and is smooth and linear, life is good, and I can concentrate on learning to ride.
schrode
Husqvarna
AA Class
45, 175, 3rd clip on the blue needle. got it started but man is my leg tired. it took quite a bit of idle adjustment. but it starts right up now. jetting seems rich and i'm around 3-5000 feet shy of summer riding area so i'm thinking i need to lean it out. i haven't had an opportunity to ride it yet so we'll see.
Johnnymannen
Husqvarna
AA Class
motosapiens;101997 said:why? the bike already makes more power than i can use everywhere. on all my other bikes i generally prefer the c-taper needles to the d-tapers. As long as it starts and runs and is smooth and linear, life is good, and I can concentrate on learning to ride.
I think you would like the EEL, because it runs even cleaner from the bottom and with a more linear powercurve
! It´s not that you always need more power everytime. I used the red JD too before in 1st groove and it was clean and didn´t spooge, but the powercurve is better with the EEL i must say. for me it´s a little strange why the JD needles are so rich from the bottom. Why must they be that fat at light throttle? My bike only bludders if i use the red JD needle in 2nd slot or more. the blue one is way too rich for me. Johnny
Johnnymannen
Husqvarna
AA Class
schrode;102012 said:
Maybe a 40 pilot, EEL needle in 2nd or the red JD in 2nd groove and a 170 main?
Johnny
motosapiens
Husqvarna
A Class
Johnnymannen;102200 said:
it must be some characteristic of the husky engine or reeds or something. i've used the jd needles (and similar ones like the 1370dka, ccl, etc...) in a number of bikes and they are not fat at all at light throttle. in my kx250 and 200xcw they run super clean and crisp from right off idle. (in clip 3 or 4).
I guess i'll eventually try the EEL, just to see if I can learn something, since both of you speak highly of it.
Johnnymannen
Husqvarna
AA Class
motosapiens;102262 said:
Ok, i don´t know why my bike is a bit rich, but when i use the red JD in tight and gnarly terrain and only use light throttle and have the needle in 3rd clip, i foul my plug almost. It needs cleaning up on an open road in between to be sure not to foul it. Maybe i ride too slow
!Johnny
motosapiens
Husqvarna
A Class
Johnnymannen;102410 said:Ok, i don´t know why my bike is a bit rich, but when i use the red JD in tight and gnarly terrain and only use light throttle and have the needle in 3rd clip, i foul my plug almost. It needs cleaning up on an open road in between to be sure not to foul it. Maybe i ride too slow
i'm not surprised. keep in mind that the jd needle is a couple clips richer than the CEL (and probably the EEL too). A cel in clip#3 is similar to a jd rd or ccl in clip #1. a jd in clip 3 or 4 in a 300 ought to be awfully rich and hard to start and sputtery off idle and so forth.
i rode briefly today with the 40p/170m/jd red #1, and the bike felt great. i could maybe go 1/2 clip richer for the desert (3000' elevation), but most of our summertime riding is 5000' and up, so clip #1 should work well.
Johnnymannen
Husqvarna
AA Class
Well, the CEL has a smaller taper all the way compared to the EEL, so the EEL is richer all the way from off throttle actually. The only similar thing of these two is the base diameter. 1,34 degrees taper on the CEL and 2,00 degrees on the EEL. The red JD has a non straight taper and is richer in the middle then both the CEL and EEL. My bike ran good with the red JD in first or second clip pos, but not as clean from the bottom as the EEL. I also have the EEM to try that is even leaner off throttle. I´m going to try the EEM in 3rd clip when the wheather is better.
Johnny
Johnny