8. When you get them out of the
bike you got it licked. Turn the carbs upside down.
Remember they are still filled with gas in the
bowls. Loosen each and every screw in the bottom of
each carbs (4 per carb) and carefully break each
lower cap off the bottoms and you can save the
rubber seals and reuse them again.
9. When you get the bottoms off,
you'll see 2 jets per carb, is a flat screwdriver to
remove one and a 5.5 mm on the others. Remember, the
108's go in the front and are number on each jet,
105's to the rear. Throw all jets in the solution
you get from AutoZone or your local parts store. A
1-gallon carb cleaner dip tank with basket. Put it
outside if you can with the lid on it. This stuff
smells real bad.
10. On the floats, remove each
pin and take out the floats and make sure the seat
moves up and down freely and make sure the little
spring loaded button on the seat buttons move up and
down freely. There is a specific distance the floats
should sit away from the side of the housing (in
their path of travel) when the floats are just
touching the needles. This is the float adjustment
and you change it by bending the metal tab at the
base of the float that presses against the needle.
See the Service Manual or the Clymer Manual for the
measurement and procedure.
11. Take off the upper chrome
caps, they have needles in them, just pull them out,
blow air in each hole under the cap 3 or 4 in there,
use only bout 25 -30 lbs of pressure, and make sure
when you put it back together you line up the gasket
right, it has a hole that lines up on one side of
it, you can't miss it. Apparently on some Magna
models, the springs on the backs of the slides
differ slightly between carbs - do not mix up the
springs.
12. Blow air thru each port or
every opening on the bottom side too using only
25-30lbs there too. Spray carb cleaner in all
openings. It will clean it out real good.
13. When you pull the jets out of
solution run a wire thru the jets, even if they
don't look dirty in there, there is residue and must
be cleaned out with a wire. DON'T REAM THE HOLES
OUT. You can use a wire bristle off a wire brush.
Make sure to soak the jets over night in solution,
it does make a difference, believe me I know. I got
impatient and had to do this twice cause I didn't
have the solution the first time.
That's it, reassemble the same
way you took it apart. Supplies / tips :
1 gallon of carb cleaner solution with a basket.
Get 3 cans of carb cleaner spray to clean inside
and outside of carbs.
Just remember on the socket headed jets, the
108's go in the front carbs and the 105's go in the
rear carbs. They have #'s on them so look closely.
California models have 105's in the front and
rear.
The carbs are difficult to reseat. Before trying
to reseat the carbs, you might want to soak the
rubbers in hot (touchable - not too hot) water. It
makes them very pliable. Get the rear carbs seated
firmly first then use two small flat-head
screwdrivers to work the right front carb into it's
seat and then the left front. A second person really
helps with this, as you need to add some downward
pressure wile your working the carbs into the seats.
Another suggestion is that two metal shoehorns may
make this easier.
