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Has anyone else had the joy of trying to balance a rack of carbs that use individual throttle cables after the cables get a little kinked or bent from age?
Four individual carb cables are not too bad if they are on an inline motor. You should try to sync the slides on the four cylinder Rg500 square four two stroke. You have two carbs on either side of the motor!!!!! Plus a 5th cable for the oil pump.
To keep the throttle cables from moving in the carb adjuster, I safety wire them to the adjuster so they have no chance of any movement of the cable in the adjuster. The carb slides stay in sync much longer when I do this. When I sync the slides on my Rg, I put my left finger in the top left carb, put my right finger in the top right carb, and open and close the throttle grip WITH MY TEETH!!!!! Then I just sync the top carb on each side to the lower carb on that side. If you do it right, when you drop the slides you should only hear ONE CLICK when the slides hit the throttle stop screws. If you hear more than one click, time to start the whole process over!!!!! You have to be a raving fanatic in order to keep a Rg500 running at its maximum potential at all times!!!!!
Safety wired cable to slide adjuster screw
The left hand set of carbs of a Rg500.
Screw that ethanol gasoline. I run everything I own (except my car) on VP110!!!
This stuff has that same nice aroma that all gasolines had when we were kids!!!
Today's gasolines have an obnoxious smell to them.