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If the engine pops worse when it is cold, it is too lean. The cold, dense air requires the mixture to be richened up. Have you installed an adjustable fuel screw? I adjust mine every time I go out and ride. It makes that much difference. I'd be willing to help you out as much as I can. There is so much misinformation on other sites, it can make trying to understand a carburetor more difficult than what it really is. Simply put, determine which circuit you are dealing with, then make it leaner or richer. If you are at idle, then punch the throttle, then you are dealing with two circuits--idle circuit (which the pilot jet and fuel screw come into effect here) and the accelerator pump circuit (which is the pump and the leak jet). If, at idle, the engine is already at the lean limit and then the throttle is opened up quickly the accelerator pump has to overcompensate for this lean issue (which isn't good later on trying to set the needle and main). What I did was get the idle to be at the proper air/fuel mixture. I went ahead and zip tied/safety wired the accelerator pump linkage together, and checked the timing of the pump squirt. (I have this recorded under my seat in magic marker, I think I set it at 1.5 seconds. I'll have to check.) My yfz doesn't run PERFECT, but to gain that last little bit will require way too much work for what I am willing to do. I ran my quad on the dyno down at Little Sahara just to see some numbers and I was pleased. The first thing I did was install the fuel screw, and change the pilot. If the fuel screw is set between 1 and about 3 turns out, then the pilot is correct. If the fuel screw needs to be closer to the full in position than one turn out, go smaller on the pilot (this would be going leaner.) If the fuel screw is turned out three turns and still needs to come out more, then change the pilot to one size larger (I think stock was 42). I have a 45 pilot and usually around 2 turns out on the fuel screw. I tend to think of the fuel screw as making the pilot somewhat adjustable (it helps me understand it a little better). I honestly believe if the bog you are referring to comes into play from opening the throttle up quickly from an idle, then correcting the pilot and fuel screw will help tremendously. After correcting the pilot/fuel screw jetting and the bog still is unmanageable, then address the pump cover, linkage, leak jet, squirt timing, etc. Be slow and methodical making changes on a carburetor. And please, document what changes are made (from what and to what, and what the weather/temperature is).
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