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I wasn't saying Gerbens work was rubbish Ted, just that it's not as good as most people make out, they are so surprised at how good they look when they come back they don't look closely. On carbs the attention should be in the details, the zinc plating isn't very good on those, I've seen butterflies really distorted and out of line with the cables, however the riveting isn't down to Gerben, if it's bad that down to Honda. Looking at the linkage bar it looks to me to have not been removed as the retaining pin doesn't look to have been drilled out BUT I could be wrong as he's done that and fitted another, I use screw in ones, if he done that he's used a plain rivet which IMO isn't a great idea. If he didn't remove the pin he's clearly just tidied up the linkage bar and not done a great job of that either. I had 3 of mine hard chromed, it's not cheap to have done these days, about £65 or so IIRC. However that does fix the problem permanently. Looks like you need to have the cable clamp straightened and also check the butterfly isn't bent as well. I did these for another member earlier this year. I opted for bright zinc plating with blue passivate rather than gold. Roo did the plating as my kit wasn't set up. I even polished up the brass in the float bowls, might as well do a good job whilst you're in there The Honda piping isn't ethanol resistant Skoti, it might be now but the older stuff isn't. Common practice is to replace with Viton Orings inside and Nitrile fuel pipe which is ethanol resistant. Like this I used.