Whats your favorite carbs?

N0NB wrote:

Electronic fuel injection. :whistle:

now if somebody made an easy to retrofit kit for use electro/techno challenged types!:laugh:

fuel injection as well and it gives you things to play with as well

The ones i sent away to be rebuilt...especially if they get returned in a timely fashion!! :dry:

Dave Sloan wrote:

fuel injection as well and it gives you things to play with as well

got a simple idiot proof kit?:laugh:

talk about depressing...I have two old LTD's. An 82 550 LTD with TK22's and my new project, an '80 750 LTD with CV 34's. Sounds like I am 2 for 2 on pain in the butt carbs... I don't have too much experience yet with the CV's, but I have had alot of experience with the TK's. All I have really done though in 5 yrs I owned the bike is replace the needles. However, this bike has always been a very hard starting bike. I actually keep a rag under my seat so I can plug the intake to get some extra choke. My TK's are missing all 4 doors on the choke...my question is, where in the heck did these go? I put a set of rings and head/base gasket in 2 yrs ago and did not find any missing doors or scoring on the sleeves.

somebody thought they were being a hotrodder and pulled them out to try to get more flow nice move on there part.

apbling wrote:

talk about depressing...I have two old LTD's. An 82 550 LTD with TK22's and my new project, an '80 750 LTD with CV 34's. Sounds like I am 2 for 2 on pain in the butt carbs... I don't have too much experience yet with the CV's, but I have had alot of experience with the TK's. All I have really done though in 5 yrs I owned the bike is replace the needles. However, this bike has always been a very hard starting bike. I actually keep a rag under my seat so I can plug the intake to get some extra choke. My TK's are missing all 4 doors on the choke...my question is, where in the heck did these go? I put a set of rings and head/base gasket in 2 yrs ago and did not find any missing doors or scoring on the sleeves.

I found out it was Harm (a member here) who blocked all of the flap openings on the TK22 choke plates. Then when he starts the bike, he justs lifts the choke open slightly as he's cranking and it starts right up. That would emulate the blocking-the-airbox-mouth method. I think he also just put an extra detent on the choke lever just above the closed position that he goes to after starting.

I believe you can pull the choke plates out without removing the carbs. As a matter of fact, I don't remove the carbs for much of anything short of a complete rebuild. I use allen screws on the bowls so I can access the jets from below, and the needle, throttle-balance, and choke is all handled from above. One trick is to put a super-thin coat of antiseize on the bowl gasket. The bowls come off like new then. In 15 years of changing jets etc. I haven't replaced one bowl gasket yet, on about a dozen sets of TK22's.

I recommend the fast-idle screw mod I mentioned on the previous page of this thread. That will also help with starting in different temperature ranges.

You-Know, now that I have figured out how to work with them and modify them to work really well with pods, I would have to say BS34s or BS36s(GS1150 stock). If you compare them to smooth boars, they would be equivalent to 30.6 and 32 respectively. Because they still retain a full venturi they draw much better, and they give you WAY BETTER gas millage on the street. I have never had a diaphragm go bad in a carb.

Otto