Carb kit plugs?

[LoHo]

Hey kids...I'm cleaning my carbs and using new parts as much as seems reasonable: new boots, new seats and needles, new gaskets, everything taken apart, soaked and cleaned, and soon put back together. Included in the rebuild kits were black rubber plugs, and I can't see where they would be used. Any ideas? They look like some sort of stopper, but I'm more interested in unplugging carb passages.

[prometheus578]

Insert the plugs in your ears when the "Winged Harpy" grouses about you spending too much time with the bike and not enough with her.
Carb kits are made to fit several different model bikes. Those plugs go on the ends of the tube that holds the Pilot Jet. That is, unless you have the "Plug Screws".
Plug screws... what a concept. I shouldn't admit it, but I've never had my carbs off. I just rejetted two days ago (carbs still on the bike), and looking up...."What the hey?" "Now who the hell shoved screws in there?" "Damn... they ALL have them!"
Imagine my chagrin, when checking the manual, to find that that's how it's 'sposed to be. Guess I've just been workin' on too many Kawasakis with the rubber plugs.
At least when I make a stupid mistake on my bike, no one's around to witness. But I'm sure if the dogs could laugh.... they would!

[GNEPIG]

.. if your carbs did not come with the rubber plugs in them than throw the ones in the kit away
.. and proman put the screws back in ..i tried this once also, isn't it funny "we live we learn"

[prometheus578]

I live, but don't seem to learn

"Insanity: Continuing to do something the same way, but expecting different results"
No, Gnepig,
I let sleepin' dogs lie, and the screw plugs, too.
Though I liked the suggestion I read last week about replacing the float bowl screws with Allen Head cap screws. Takin' the bowls off (when on the bike) using modified screwdrivers, or a phillip's bit in a 6mm socket, is more trouble than it's worth. I really liked taking off the oil line to get to the inner front screw of carb #3.
Next time I'll just take the Dad-Gum carbs off.

[LoHo]

Thanks, gents. I thought that they were superfluous, but I knew this list would be able to tell me.

[prometheus578]

Superfluous!

Hey! Who are YOU to be using big words like that here?
I'm the resident pompous ass!
Superfluous... Indeed!


(Note to self... Superfluous: I should write that down so I can casually use it at work tomorrow)

[LoHo]

Sorry...I didn't mean to be pedantic. I'll truncate my missives in the future.
~LoHo~

[DiverRay]

LoHo, just cuz you teach, youz have to show off!!
Ray

[Winterhawk]

LoHo, be forewarned that your pilot jet openings may be to large. Compare them to the OEM for the size of the openings. Doesn't matter what the number is on the aftermarket jets. They are known to be wrong sometimes.

Reno Yamaha had an XS1100 that all the mechanics there couldn't figure out. Braden from Meriam Cycle went to work there also and immediately figured out they used aftermarket pilot jets...LOL

[LoHo]

WinterHawk, I didn't see a need to re-jet. The only hard pieces I'm replacing are the inlet and the float needle. All of the others I'm trying to keep as stock as I can. I want to change as little possible and restore the great performance I had when things were clean. I found a little rust an quite a bit of decayed rubber, so I'm also replacing the old hoses with modern clear materials.

[prometheus578]

Sorry...I didn't mean to be pedantic. I'll truncate my missives in the future.

What's really scarey... is that I understood what he said!
(I need to lay offa the crossword puzzles for a while)