Which carb rebuild kit?

[slowridin03]

First off, after printing off nearly 60 pages of how to and tech answers, I feel confident that i can get the ski's back up and running like champs again soon :hurray:

I am most likely going to pick up a 96 XP and 99 GTI this coming weekend. Both have been sitting up for nearly 3 seasons now, so I have my work cut out for me. In the process, I want to rebuild both carbs. This will be my first experience with carbs, but not my first mechanical experience... i am just used to high performance EFI car motors :rofl:

I downloaded the .pdf's from another thread for rebuilding the carbs, but am not sure which rebuild kits to buy? Are both ski's using the same carb? Which carb kit should I look at buying?

Thanks,
Cody

 

[ski-d00]

I wouldn't buy anything just yet. If the skis were winterized properly before storage, they may be completely fine, new fuel, new batteries, new plugs, compression test, and see if you can get them running first. You need to make sure you don't have major engine issues before spending anything.

Also, I wouldn't buy a carb rebuild kit(mikuni BN-38 on the GTI and BN-40 on the xp, mikuni BN rebuild kit retails for like $40 each) until I actually took the carb apart, lots of times all the carb gaskets disassemble perfect and all the seals are in great shape and can just be cleaned, reassembled, tested, and reused. They are very reliable carbs with very few issues, only issues are the grey fuel lines and the filters clogging. Even then, you can still use the grey fuel lines if you don't mind cleaning the filters every year or when it starts to fall on its face on the top end. New fuel lines is a tough sale to customers even when you show them examples. I tell them til I'm blue in the face and recommend that they go to NAPA and do it themselves if they don't want me to do it, but they very rarely do.

I'm sure I may get some flack for this post but I hear all the time about how people want to spend no money because it's an older machine and the economy is crap and they lost their job, etc, etc. You can normally get older machines running for almost no money if they are mechanically sound. Sure, it's better and more reliable to do things the right way with all new parts but where do you stop? With older machines, I normally just recommend to fix what's broke, reuse what you can, and keep up the regular maintenance.

 

[slowridin03]

Thanks for the advice! I am fairly certain the 96 just needs the fluids flushed and the carb and filters cleaned as he said it was running strong last time it was out

The 99 is the one I'm more concerned about as he said it's last outing it was going strong and slowly lost power until it died and wouldn't start back up. That to me sounded like a filter or fuel line itself got clogged. I plan on getting into it this weekend and seeing what I can do to at least getting it to fire off... I have gotten a lot of helpful info here today and look forward to getting a little nasty!

I do have plans of ridding them both of the grey fuel lines as well.

Thanks again and I am sure I will be picking all of your brains again shortly

 

[robin savell lloyd]

I wouldn't buy anything just yet. If the skis were winterized properly before storage, they may be completely fine, new fuel, new batteries, new plugs, compression test, and see if you can get them running first. You need to make sure you don't have major engine issues before spending anything.

Also, I wouldn't buy a carb rebuild kit(mikuni BN-38 on the GTI and BN-40 on the xp, mikuni BN rebuild kit retails for like $40 each) until I actually took the carb apart, lots of times all the carb gaskets disassemble perfect and all the seals are in great shape and can just be cleaned, reassembled, tested, and reused. They are very reliable carbs with very few issues, only issues are the grey fuel lines and the filters clogging. Even then, you can still use the grey fuel lines if you don't mind cleaning the filters every year or when it starts to fall on its face on the top end. New fuel lines is a tough sale to customers even when you show them examples. I tell them til I'm blue in the face and recommend that they go to NAPA and do it themselves if they don't want me to do it, but they very rarely do.

I'm sure I may get some flack for this post but I hear all the time about how people want to spend no money because it's an older machine and the economy is crap and they lost their job, etc, etc. You can normally get older machines running for almost no money if they are mechanically sound. Sure, it's better and more reliable to do things the right way with all new parts but where do you stop? With older machines, I normally just recommend to fix what's broke, reuse what you can, and keep up the regular maintenance.

:agree: Sure, it's better and more reliable to do things the right way with all new parts but where do you stop? With older machines, I normally just recommend to fix what's broke, reuse what you can, and keep up the regular maintenance. I allways use to tell people the right way to fix things. [to the best of my knowledge]. I do agree that there has to be a place where it is not worth throwing any more money into a old ski. You may have went to the same old public school I went too but hopefully you did not have to start your day off with a bowl of puffed rice and powdered milk. Sure was hard to start the day off without the breakfast of the champions. LOL :rofl: