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LOL! I like to call it patience. My wife prefers the term procrastination. It could have just gone oval as you say but it's particularly tight and uneven where I was tapping on it. Could absolutely be a coincidence though. I'd prefer that to operator error. Here she is. Garage find. Original owner t...

All, I recently posted about difficulties removing and replacing stuck carb slides on my CB77 after 15 years of storage. I've discovered the reason–--operator error. I soaked the carb bodies in carb cleaner and the slides didn't budge. I started tapping the side of the carb with a small plastic mall...

The slides must go in a specific way. The long dutout faces inside, away form the idle adjust screw. Alsothere is a left and right slide, the cut out at the bottom of the slide must face rearwards. Try polishing the bores and the slides with OOOO steel wool. Davomoto, I appreciate the advice. I hav...

Greetings, Thanks to helpful postings in this forum I was able to free my stuck slides after 15 years of neglect. After cleaning the carbs I've found the slides will go no further than a half-inch into the slide barrels. From polished areas on the barrels I can see what areas are binding. I've used ...