Flipping couches for fun and profit

[Myself]

China made aftermarket carb?

 

[WFO Speedracer]

China made aftermarket carb?

Exactamundo !

 

[Big Kahuna]

If you have a caliper take a measurement of the o-ring sizing and the diameter of the bearing groove or at least a size that is close then go to McMaster carr they should have what you need . Those only keep the bearings from spinning in the cases , in reality it will work fine without them if you put a pink layer of red locktite on the bearings it will do the same thing .

A Pink Layer of Red Loctite??????????

 

[WFO Speedracer]

Yes BK , that is straight out of Kawasaki's KTEC news service bulletins , circa 1992 , when you spread it out on the bearings correctly it appears pink , if you know , you know.

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[WFO Speedracer]

The customer is bringing me an OEM carb to rebuild , like me he has a ton of stuff laying around, this is probably my oldest and best customer, I lost count but I have probably repaired over 20 skis for him over the years now , I used to do one a month for him years ago ,now I am repairing them for his kids and the yellow GTI is for his granddaughter.

Monday he is bringing two more skis over for me to repair , two 96 or 97 GTX's , one need an engine because the inner crank seals are toast, he is also bringing a 787 that I built for him years ago that he has sitting on the shelf to install in the ski.

I have to take a ride over to his place soon to see exactly what he has over there that is buildable or that I can use , we may strike some kind of a deal on clearing out his lot and mine over the next few years .

 

[WFO Speedracer]

Just for the Halibut I timed myself to see how long it would actually take me to remove this Fakuni carb , 9 minutes from start to holding the carb in my hand , that is getting tools out of the truck and everything so yeah , that old man's still got it.

There is a reason my nickname is Speed Racer lol.

 

[orangefinger]

thx that all i needed to know and was hoping

If you have a caliper take a measurement of the o-ring sizing and the diameter of the bearing groove or at least a size that is close then go to McMaster carr they should have what you need . Those only keep the bearings from spinning in the cases , in reality it will work fine without them if you put a pink layer of red locktite on the bearings it will do the same thing .

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[WFO Speedracer]

The customer brought me an OEM carb off of a 97 GTI last night , this morning I went through it , cleaned it and put it back together , it was very clean inside and the only thing that took some work to get going was the accell pump and I put in a new main diaphragm , it is now ready to water test again , hopefully this will wrap this one up , the 97GTI is right behind it and hopefully will be finished tomorrow .

He has a bunch of project skis over there he is never going to fix and we may work out a deal on them at some point, I really need to take a ride over there and see what he has .

I was sick most of Saturday and all day Sunday , yesterday I still wasn't 100% and I went at it way too hard , I did pretty much the same this morning so things are moving really slowly here , I still have to replace that tire on the trailer before I can water test it again , maybe by tomorrow.