OK, big update:

I spent the whole afternoon working on Samantha and i will debrief you on what occurred

First, i think i found out what was wrong the other day. I was chatting with bill today and he told me to double check the pilot jets to make sure they were getting fuel. Well, i always looked at the holes on the sides, but not in the middle, which was what actually mattered Both had the very tiniest hole i had ever seen. Just barely there. Well, i looked for a staple as he directed, but the staple didn't work, i was able to locate a very tiny needle. Well wow!!! After a few minutes all the sudden a real hole appeared that was similar to the hole on my 50k, not quite as big, but i am not sure if i really can tell the difference. So yeah, one problem fixed. I believe that was the main one, i am still not sure what is causing them to become clogged.

Next, i think i figured out why she was backfiring, i was actually on the telephone with a girl while i was putting the bike back together and i only set one of the 2 needles to the middle position, the other was on the second position, so that would cause each cylinder to get different amounts of fuel. Which i think would cause a backfire. I am not certain, but that is what i have come up with.

So another exciting part today was when i was on the phone with bill and i was going to try to blow the gunk out of the pilot jet with carb cleaner, well about 5 seconds after bill told me to be careful of my eyes, i sprayed the bottle and, guess what happened. A jet went directly into my eyes. OH MAN, that burns!!!
So i spent the next 15 minutes with my eyes under my faucet in the kitchen. Wow, there is a reason they suggest eye protection when working with that stuff and just working in a garage. I wore eye protection for the rest of the day and actually got another jet into the eye area, i was happy that i was wearing the glasses the second time around.

So yeah, it was a very exciting day, i have removed the fuel mixture screws and i am going to use the tools at the machine shop at my school tomorrow to score them. I believe i will be able to get her back on the road tomorrow afternoon after my lab class.

here are some pix.


This is what happened to the area around my mixture screws. They got pretty much destroyed by the time i was done. I didn't actually mean to break them, but after it happened once, i thought i might as well finish the job


This is a picture of what happened to my throttle cable piece. I still have no idea what actually happened. It still works, it is just very messy now.


Another Angle



My other carbs that i have cannibalized.

So i have really learned a ton! I am really feeling comfortable with these carbs now Oh, i also went to the honda shop today to get a new 182 main jet, but they didn't have it and they would have to order it, so i am going to just order one online or call them later. It was going to be a minimum of a week. I was wondering if anyone knew where a good place is to get parts like that, also a new set of mixture screws might be good being that i have kinda butchered them, does anyone know of a place that sells them with phillips heads? I see philips head in my Honda manual. I would love to get a set of those.