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Old 10-19-2009, 05:01 PM
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Default Re: Yamaha Carb(s) Rebuild??

With O-rings, you can clean without rebuilding most of the time. Yamaha carb kits are astronomically expensive. I know the complete carb kits for the late 80's Yamaha 220 "Special" are $170 each, and you need six of them!

Most people make a "poor boy's" carb kit, replacing just the float valve/needle and o-rings, and using a product like Quicksilver "PowerTune" to clean out the jets. It works 90+ % of the time.

If you take your o-rings to the local NAPA auto parts store and replace with generic metric o-rings, they cost under $1 each, and they are now formulated for use in ethanol-rich fuels. They have more than 200 different sizes of just metric o-rings here at my local NAPA, and about the same # is SAE sizes.
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