In keeping with my other post about the backfiring, popping, etc.....I decided after doing more reading and research on the problem to take the K&N air filter off the bike and replace it with an OEM filter. This decision was made do to everything I read about the K&N filter said the same thing.....it said that with a k&N filter you would need to rejet the carbs to allow for the increased air flow....so I put the OEM back on and it definitely seems to be helping, but now it smells like the bike might be running a little too rich. The pilot screws are set at 2 1/4 turns out which is the factory setting, I am wondering if I should try turning them in a little, maybe around 2 turns out to see if it makes a difference. I wasn't smelling the gas/rich odor before the filter replacement, so now I am thinking since the OEM is back on the bike, that the fuel/air mixture is a little too rich. So would turning the pilots in to say 2 turns out, would that decrease the amount of fuel that is being mixed with the air. I am not quite sure just how all of this works, but feel that it would help to decrease the fuel and therefore help with the richness that I am smelling.
I know you guys are getting tired of me and my rambling about the same issue....but I am trying to figure this out on my own...but I do have an appointment to take the trike in later this month. I also am in the process of getting an OEM exhaust to have on hand if I decide to take the drag pipes off....just not sure yet if I want to sacrifice the sound....
Thanx so much for bearing with me on my ramblings!:Bow Down:
Anita :Pepper: