Hello everyone,
After countless carbs disassembly and reassembly. I start to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
I'll try to get through the process briefly :
1) I first went for pilot #42, main #98, 3rd clip position
2) Soot and smoke was building up, idle was hanging when up in the revs
3) Changed the spark plugs for DR8EA but it wasn't firing properly and flooding so back to the D7EA
3) Went for new O-ring (thanks Nurse Julie and Fogrider) for the mains and put back OEM needles and emulsion tubes
4) Very little difference but slight improvement in the riding qualty though still soot and black smoke and hanging idle
5) I measured how much petrol were in the bowl, between 50ml and 60ml (is that too much?)
6) I went for pilot #38, main #110 (I don't have any #105), 3rd clip position
7) Somehow some carbs started to leak petrol from the overflow massively and flood the pods (and so the engine)... taken them out to fix this...
7) NO MORE SMOKE! NO MORE HANGING IDLE!
It really starts to run well BUT it's struggle to take off when hot and sometimes stalls, I really have to rev it to take off. Once rolling it's fine. Basically low revs are bogging. It's idling fine though. If I wait at a red light and try to go it's really boggy like it's building up. I tried to play with the mixing screw but very little difference on this problem. I struggle to put it in Neutral so I guess carburetion is not quite there, yet!
Now here are my different thoughts :
1) Some carbs are still leaking very slightly from the overflow (like a drop or so but only when riding) and I kind of find a bit of petrol under some pods, if the level is too high in the bowl, could it flood the carbs? I don't have any smoke though but I tested late this evening maybe I didn't see it.
2) Clip position is too high so it's running too rich when accelerating
3) I need to go for #40 pilot jet
4) Get the DR8EA back on to see if it helps to fix this
Let me know what your thoughts are on this one,
Thanks
Tom