Re: 1150 carb removal
Disconnect battery<br /><br />I removed...<br />Shield<br />Cowling<br />Top Cowling<br />External skeleton/chassis (4 veritcal bolts in the back by Nr5 plug, 2 horizontal bolts at the front, down the bottom by the coil)<br />Choke solenoid wire<br />Ignition box wires ( 4 on the one side, 3 on the other)<br />Starter wire<br />Starter mounting top and bottom<br />Starter<br /><br />Makes life easier if you then remove the coil enitely with distributor cap and plug wires (As a assembly). On mine all the wires screw into the distributor, and it's a ***** to screw them out. Also you risk breaking one if you screw them back too tight.<br /><br />Remove all 3 caps + filters on the sides of the carbs. They havta be moved up and aside all at the same time.<br /><br />Loosen all 3 carbs, and start removing them from the bottom.<br /><br />Take note at Carb 2 how to turn and slide the choke lever back into position.<br /><br />If you are 2 people it's actually easiest to remove all 3 carbs at the same time and dis-assemble them on a table.<br /><br />Take pictures as you go along. The 3 carbs can't be mixed up so don't worry about that. Top carb has a pick-up, choke, and choke solenoid center.<br />Middle carb has a choke. Bottom carb doesn't have a choke.<br /><br />Best stuff I've found for carb cleaning is a 50/50 mixture of purple methilated spirits and gasoline/petrol. Then I use aerosol carb cleaner to spray into all the small channels etc. But I'm sure the other more experienced guys have something better.<br /><br />For the distributor cap I used a light sand paper to clean the pickups. Washed out with my carb cleaner. Electrical cleaner woulda been better I suppose. Lightly sprayed the inside with a water displacing spray oil (WD40). And just wiped the pickus clean again so there's not excessive oil on them.
