How To: Clean your carbs

[94cbr600kid]

Dam i just cleaned my carbs last night.I should of done a better and more detailed "How to" clean the carbs..

[nepelsopon]

Originally Posted by Det99cbrf4

Whats the bigger one with a screw hole also, next to it?

Can someone shed some more light regarding the quote above? If you start counting from left to right, the 2nd brass thing and the 3rd brass thing seem to have screwdriver grooves. According to Redzintimidator, the 3rd Brass thing is the idle jet. What is the 2nd Brass thing?
Can / should that one be removed and clean as well?
Do any pieces pring out / tricky to put that 2nd brass thing back in?

Thanks for the info. My 2000 F4 seems to be running crappy at idle. It might start but it sounds like its about to die, even with the choke on. When the choke is off it dies. With the choke on, you can get it moving and if you're lucky it wont shut off on you until you stop. I followed the how-to, but skipped out on cleaning the idle jet mentioned. I will be taking the carbs apart once again to clean them out and this time I will clean the idle jet as stated.
Since I will be going through the trouble again, I want to know what that 2nd brass thing is and if it can be removed and cleaned.

Thanks once again.

[patrick12]

i just cleaned mine yesterday and it was a lot easier than i thought

i didnt do it as detailed as the pictures but i did get the junk out of the jets

when i took the cover off the first jet the bigger of the jets fell out has anyone ever seen this happen my buddy that was helping said he has never seen that happen

all i had to do was screw it back in and it was fine

weird though

[redzintimidator]

Originally Posted by patrick12

i didnt do it as detailed as the pictures but i did get the junk out of the jets

when i took the cover off the first jet the bigger of the jets fell out has anyone ever seen this happen my buddy that was helping said he has never seen that happen

all i had to do was screw it back in and it was fine

weird though

Cleaning the jets is the most important part and 80% of the time that is the problem. Never seen a jet being loose...lol They are usually really really tight in there!