I lost my 'point n shoot' camera beginning of month. Usually off load pics on the camera's card. Have some of the X2 dismantle, lost some....like taking the carbs apart. That had me staring at the choke mechanism apart for a while...while looking for missing pan head screws for float bowel cover and FB gaskets which I found. gave me a chance to blow out anything out of passage ways, lube that binary choke action and dab some med. Loctite on little screws I don't want to loose. I believe the needle of the Solex just drops into the float hole and is secured by just dropping the plastic spring holder on top of it. The clips were set at 1 groove up when removed, the float bowl heights were both about dead on at 24mm. So, left those alone to reassemble. Has the 130 main jets. One little jet is buggered up but clean.
moving on to something more daunting ...cleaning out the ft. fork tubes and rebuilding those with new shinny tubes and unrated springs. Think I'll send the aluminum lower forks and my rear wheel hub to my soda blaster before I decide to polish or leave as is as I did with the patina on the carbs that looks nice. Once that patina is gone....it's gone. Oh, go check the ft.steel rim that slept in evapo-rust...then take a walk.
moving on to something more daunting ...cleaning out the ft. fork tubes and rebuilding those with new shinny tubes and unrated springs. Think I'll send the aluminum lower forks and my rear wheel hub to my soda blaster before I decide to polish or leave as is as I did with the patina on the carbs that looks nice. Once that patina is gone....it's gone. Oh, go check the ft.steel rim that slept in evapo-rust...then take a walk.