How To Clean Carburetor On Ninja 250

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Originally Posted by Solunatic View Post

Actually cleaning the carbs isn't the difficult part about cleaning the carbs. Information technology's getting them off and back in the bike that's the trouble! if you've never washed it earlier, follow the guide on ninja250.org and be prepared to call your bike all sorts of terrible names. Cleaning the carbs itself is pretty simple, I've never used carb cleaner, just gasoline, my fingers and a shop rag. For cleaning the jets i use a set of gauge pins and push em through, but the right gauge wire from the hardware store would probably piece of work only as well. Be careful with the diaphragms though. They're kinda delicate and i hear expensive to supplant. My general rules are don't clean them with metal, and simply use gas or carb cleaner. since it's your starting time time you may want to label parts with tags or something and then compare them to the pics in the guide as you reassemble, and merely do one at once so you accept a physical reference. It really sucks to get everything back together, wait in the bin and recollect "now where the hell did that come from?"

All of this. The carbs on these bikes are simple and straightforward. Getting them on and off SUCKS. That's why I recommend you do this modification.

http://faq.ninja250.org/wiki/Bombardment...r_carb_removal

It is THE Best modification to make the bike easily serviceable. It's a lot of piece of work to do, merely think of it similar this. If y'all don't do this modification y'all will have to remove the rear bike and rear fenders every fourth dimension you demand to remove/install the carbs. If you lot practice this modification it's only a matter of taking out the bombardment, removing the tray and pulling back the air box for all the clearance you lot would e'er need to get at the carbs. Believe me, you will screw up putting the carbs together correctly your starting time few times. They volition need to come up off and go dorsum on multiple times before you get it right.

Also, read up here for info on how to take apart and clean the carbs.

http://faq.ninja250.org/wiki/Intake

Another bit of advice. Be VERY careful when removing the screws on the carbs. They strip VERY hands. They are too not a standard #1 or #2 phillips screwdriver. They're a special size made by some Japanese visitor. So after removing the phillips caput hardware I would take a trip to my local hardware store and supplant all the phillips head stuff with stainless allen head hardware. I do this with all my carbs and it makes maintenance a breeze. Y'all'll never have to deal with stripped screws over again.