Carb jets

[jacobs]

Hi,

I'm new to this forum and if this has already been covered, please forgive me but I didn't find anything.

I want to rejet my carburetor on my 1986 EA82. Does anyone know where I can purchase smaller jets? Reading the spark plugs, the carb is running too rich - It's not the choke. Years ago (35+), I used to solder up jets and redrill them but I've since learned that is not the best thing to do. With the price of gasoline I'd like it to run as efficiently as possible.

Thanks

[NorthWet]

I do not know of where to get replacement jets. I would suspect that Solex or Weber jets MAY be interchangeable. HOWEVER...

 

... I would also suspect that your carb jets are not the culprit in your engine seeming to run rich. Plus, just mucking around with the jets without knowing WHEN the engine might be running rich could cause you a great amount of problems getting it to run right.

 

First off, what was the engine doing before you pulled the plugs to check them? Were the plugs new before you checked them? (As in, were they a clean sheet of paper of did they have thousands of miles of "scribbles" on them that you were reading?) Lots of things can make an engine run rich at idle, but none of them are the main jets.