A month or so I acquired a CNS carb from my mb connection and I loved the performance and dialed it in for the 35mph my bike needs to do, but after a week or two the carb backed off the manifold so I did an inspection on it and discovered the clamp to the manifold was cracking on both sides ,(they started because of the flash not being cleaned off )so some research and I know that my carb is junk , throw it away. I check the new posts everyday and I read a post from Venice about the same kind of prob so then I think about how I hate the restrictive intake manifold and I got nothing to lose so I started " The CNS Frankincarb project"-------- I started looking at all the pieces I had and it came to my mind that I hate the intake so that is where I started the intake on the cab is for 15/16 in tube so I saw a handle bar in my yard and cut a section form it keeping the part where the gooseneck mounts it is about 1 in and used some of the bend to finish with 3/4in ID, cleaned it up , ground it down to the 15/16in, made an intake flange as big as I can some welding and a new better intake is born. Then it was time to look at the carb,I ground off all the broken stuff and ruffed up where the J-B weld was gonna go bent up two little grabbers and made it all fit ,glued it together let it sit on the mantel overnight , paint and final fitting,I made the air cleaner out of a sink drain and some AC air cleaner material. The carb interfered with the nifty clutch assist I made so I had to remake one to accommodate it. The motor fired right up and works great I'm resetting my speedo to see who long this thing lasts I will keep you posted.---Later Bob
I wonder if ya mighta tightened it so much tryin' for grip that ya squished the spacer a bit and that's why the carb cracked?
