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Tim Steele
PostPosted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 5:35 pm 
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https://youtu.be/L4C_jFLX548
Jetting run#2.

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Jim
PostPosted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 5:43 pm 
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Looks like it's running pretty good, Tim.

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Tim Steele
PostPosted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 6:50 pm 
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Getting there. Thanks. We had to install my spare top end due to one too many 9500 RPM shifts causing the RH piston to take the rest of it's life off. This video was the 2nd run with the new top end. Luckily I had all the stuff to do it and Frank B came over and helped me to figure out what had happened and change the parts. http://www.2strokeworld.net/forum/index ... pic=2840.0
See link for pics and description. The TMs are definitely worth the effort to install. Throttle response and power are greatly improved.

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Tim Steele
PostPosted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:21 am 
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Still jetting. Very close now. If my hands survive one more needle clip change..

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Jim
PostPosted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 7:30 am 
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What is happening to your hands?

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Tim Steele
PostPosted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:32 am 
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Probably arthritis. Needle clip position changes on these carbs are shall we say challenging...and as I age the joints in my hands are getting more and more troublesome. I have done a lot of wrench turning over the last 63 years. Daddy said gettin old ain't for sissies. Aspercreme as needed and supplementing with turmeric helps.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:50 am 
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I'm getting a little of that too. I don't believe that anything you put on your skin is going to soak all the way in to the joints, but aspirin into my mouth seems to help. Other anti-inflammatory drugs should help too. Ibuprofen is one that my wife uses.

Of course something you put on you skin that makes it burn might take your mind off the joint pain. :)

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Tim Steele
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https://sendvid.com/39elkvrr?secret=769 ... dd87e0e312

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That sounds pretty responsive.

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Tim Steele
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No time to test ride today. I think it is pretty close now.

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