my friend has a 99 banshee with these 32mm carbs when i rode it the throttle was really hard to push in felt like uit was going to break off my finger is that normal or no?

 

Yeah, just because when your pushing the throttle you have to open two slides instead of one. Thats one of the things I really like about the 2 into 1 carbs, its much easier to push the throttle.

 

i have 34mm carbs on mine and it is easy to twist?

 

Yeah, the bigger dual carb setups are pretty hard on the thumb. The way to remedy that is by cutting off 4 or 5 coils from the springs in the slides, some even cut off 6. This will loosen it up some and make it easier. If you cut it a tad short, you can stretch it a little by pulling on it, but you shouldn't have that problem cutting off 5 or 6.

 

Twist throttles are a whole different story. When I had a twist, I also thought it was really easy, but I ended up wrecking pretty bad with it and switched back to thumb.

sredish- I wonder if it would run irratically when off the throttle, because it seems like there would be much less force keeping the slides in the idle position?? Since when have you been straying away from the hq??? [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

I have cut the springs on 3 different sets of carbs and never had a problem. Why would it run any different? If they were CV style (where vacumm opens the slide, cable opens a butterfly) then the spring tension would matter. It doesn't take much spring pressure to hold down the slide at idle. The weight of the slide itself would do that.

You can also take a file to the spring and make the wire size smaller throughout the spring. This lowers the tension on the wire.

I too was wondering sredish is away from the HQ. If you think there are annoying, reduntant questions and "What is faster? My big bear or my friends blaster, or my second cousins, third wifes, last boyfriends, hopped up moped? on the HQ, wait till you see some of what goes on over here. I hardly ever come here anymore.

 

very true. what's your name on the hq alky?

 

Jinx44 is my HQ login, also the same for PS.

 

yep banshees are the best