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[Douglas Money]

I put the old metal tipped needles and seats back in and it ran better, but I think it likes the 23 mm setting with them. Is there a place to get the metal tipped ones? Also, I need a throttle cable.

[grakyody]

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Try this e-mail hardpartsinc@cfl.rr.com the guy's name is George. He may be able to help.

[Kevin W]

Here's another place to get a throttle cable.
http://www.z1enterprises.com/catalog...S1100-1979-MP0
KW

[62trvler]

I had a similar problem on a brand new 81 XS11 , had it to the dealer many time. I would park the bike and fuel would be running down the kickstand by morning (lots)and eat up the pavement where she sat. I had the vacume diaphram replaced twice and still the same problem. Broke out the manual one day and followed the fuel line routing and found that when they assembled the bike they crossed a couple lines from the petcocks I believe so when the bike was sitting the fuel would flow free. Funny but the bike ran fine but leaked like crazy when parked. Maybe double check all your lines from the carbs and petcocks. I thought the same thing at the time that it was the float levels.

[fredintoon]

Weird angles

http://thepcguy.myvnc.com/xs1100/
Hi Doug,
the profile shots showing the float height look plain weird, cocked up in the air like that. Never mind the measurement, the float should sit kinda parallel to the carb body, not at an angle like yours are.
Are you sure that you have the correct needles & seats for those carb bodies and not a mis-match?

[Ken Talbot]

I was wondering about that too, fred. From the photos, it appears he has late-model carbs with the press-in float valve seats, which pair with rubber-tipped needles. Then, he talks about putting the 'old' metal tipped needles and seats back in??? Something is wrong with this. The seats that should go with metal-tipped needles should be the screw-in type, and there should be no way to use them in a later-model carb.

[fredintoon]

More pix

Hi Doug,
what Ken said.
Mix'n'match is not usually a good idea with carbs.
How about tearing one of those carbs down & posting pix of all the parts?

[snowdog51]

carbs

i you want you can send them to me if
if you have more money than time
you could talk me into coming there
as ever bill