Recent content by nokturnal

What about a different needle too? The CCK needle really took the edge off of my JD-blue needled bike.

I just went through this with my 06. It had been doing it for the past two years, getting progressively worse. I rode the bike to the point that it would only kick over 1 out of 10 tries (or more on the last day). Was hoping to get it to winter, but that didn't happen. I replaced the spring and...

no ethanol has touched this engine since I have owned the bike. well before rebuild.

Yep. It's the skirt and you can't feel them. Someone with a lot of experience with engine building figures it was just not cleaned well prior to coating.

Are you saying something (like gas?) is eating the coating off after shutdown?

to be clear, i am talking about the silver blob marks, where it appears the "moly"(??) coating has worn/chipped off.

Is this normal for the coating to come off like this? I know wearing off is normal, but I have not seen these blobby spots before... It's an S3 top-end/cylinder kit. ~15h on it. What do you think?? TIA

Originally bought for my 2006 EC250/300. Blue needle worked the best for me for the most power at sea level. I sold the bike with another needle in it. Was used for maybe 8 hours total before selling the bike. Complete kit with instructions $50 shipped

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He used the complete wheel and spacers from an 89. 18". looks like wapr9 makes them, listed as 89-97, so I assume they are the same through those years. Spacers may not be the same as the gasser though...

So an 89-97 CR250 rear wheel will work on a 04+ gasgas?

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just to close this down... 42 works perfect. idles and blips fine. I emailed JD. They gave me the exact setting, and it worked. Thanks guys!

:eek: I thought mine was bad...

I originally had a DDK in there and a 45 pilot. Did not try a 42. I thought that because the idle screw was cranked, that meant that the pilot was rich. :confused: