Now that I've started cleaning the carbs, I want to know where all the passages go/end up - some of them seem to have multiple exit/entries and are quite hard to trace. Also, some passages seem to have really smallorifices hidden inside, or are partially blocked. Reason is I've already found one totally blocked passage that compressed air and carb cleaner wouldn't fix, fixed it (thanks Gogar), but some of the others I can't figure.

SO.... does anyone have a Keihin VG manual orsectional drawing that describes more about the construction of the carb and cleaning(better than the Clymer/Haynes/Honda manuals for the bike, which just say use carb cleaner and compressed air)?

There's a great article on the Keihin CVK40 athttp://www.gadgetjq.com/keihin_carb.htm- does anyone know of anything similar for the VG? Plus more information on where all the passages go? Would be really helpful. Thank you!

 

i would give the manufacturer a call or email to their support reps. maybe they could hook you up with some useful info.

 

Thanks for the suggestion - I gave it a try but it seems like it might be confidential information... I've contacted 3 distributors - one didn't reply, another said that the diagrams that show passages are not something that Keihin gives out, and a third said it was dealer information only.

 

whelp, i guess if you want to know where the passages go, you'll have to figure it out yourself. wouldn't have guessed that it would be this hard to get that kind of info. instead of asking for the info outright, did you ask for tech support and ask them about a specific passage problem. like "where does this passage lead to becuase it looks clogged and i was wondering if it would affect anything if i didn't unclog it?" and see what kind of answer they give you.

 

Yes, your suggestion is a much better line of questioning than I actually adopted. I took the lazy way and e-mailed them - reason being that the only distributors I could find were in USA and I had a vision of hanging onto the phone through various auto-answering processes, locating the peoples,and then going throught a Q&A process while I ran up a large international toll bill!

I'll have another go at trying to trace the passages myself. Just needs a bit of patience, and may be able to figure out whether there are internal orifices involved - have got 4 to compare!

Will definitely use your question line in future!