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went to clean the stock spark arretor and
Posted: 01:58 pm Sep 17 2006
by Sky.A
the manual say bring bike to operating temp and remove plug tap with rubber mallet til carbon particals come out . Mine had no particals instead it looked like changing the oil on my pick up WTF whats going on
Posted: 02:06 pm Sep 17 2006
by Indawoods
Sounds like your running a little rich there Sky!
Posted: 05:52 pm Sep 17 2006
by IdahoCharley
Ditto what Indawoods stated.
Also depends somewhat on the oil you run - a number of the synthetic oils do not seem to produce the carbon particles that their dino cousins produce. I find that running a good synthetic oil may leave an spooge covered PV and some spooge coating in my pipe but the carbon build-up that I use to experience in the header area of the pipe and in the spark arrestor just does not happen.
Posted: 06:05 pm Sep 17 2006
by Sky.A
i run bel ray mc1 syn 50:1
Posted: 06:13 pm Sep 17 2006
by Indawoods
OUCH! That's at least part of the problem I think. That stuff is bad sticky....
But IC is right... the synth stuff doesn't create carbon like the dino stuff since it doesn't have any organic material in it.
If I was you, I'd but some better oil than the Bel-Ray because it gums up the KIPS bad.
Amsoil or Motul would be the way to go.....
Posted: 06:35 pm Sep 17 2006
by Sky.A
if i were to switch to amsol or motul would i mix the same 50:1 ratio also im just curious what plugs do you run i run ngk br8es in my bike
Posted: 06:53 pm Sep 17 2006
by Indawoods
I know the Amsoil Interceptor is run at 50:1 and it is what I run. It is made for clean powervalves.
I run the BR8ES as you....
Posted: 07:54 pm Sep 17 2006
by Sky.A
could a KIPS affect throttle responceor mimic rich jetting?
Posted: 09:05 pm Sep 17 2006
by Indawoods
Above 6K.... sure!