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- From: laszlo@eclipse.cs.colorado.edu (Laszlo Nemeth)
- Subject: Re: YO! U.S. [was] Hey, Europe!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.213350.14343@colorado.edu>
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- References: <C1EKHM.1qn@fulcrum.co.uk> <espen.27.0@itekiris.kjemi.unit.no> <1993Jan26.233613.21992@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1993Jan27.154821.3635@research.nj.nec.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:33:50 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.154821.3635@research.nj.nec.com>, behanna@phoenix.syl.nj.nec.com (Chris BeHanna) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan26.233613.21992@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> cdw2t@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Clifford David Weston) writes:
- |> >ObMoto: anyone have a problem with water in the fuel possibly freezing/causing
- |> >havoc on particularly cold (mid- to high-20s) days? The coldblooded SecaII
- |> >runs like an old VW Bug in this weather, even when it's warmed up, choke,
- |> >partial choke, or no choke. What gives?
- |>
- |> Every Yamaha I've ever seen has been cold-blooded. Thank the EPA,
- |> curse them, then bump the slow jets up a size and turn the mixture screws
- |> out a quarter turn. You may also consider using a thin washer in the needle
- |> holder to raise the needles a hair.
- |>
- |> I never could start my '81 XS400 without ether when the temperature
- |> dropped below 40 degrees F. Of course, I knew _NOTHING_ about carburetors
- |> then. :-)
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- and all it took to teach you about carburetors is a harley.
- of course all it took for me to learn about carbs was skinned
- knuckles, brunt fingers, the aroma of gas and a $50 check to
- the shop.
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- laz
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