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167,000 Miles Superglide: Jetting The Carb Update

 Jetting The Carb: UPDATE 167,000 miles on Superglide WOT It’s fairly easy to tell if the idle jet is correct, but according to Nightrider website, if you don’t have access to a dyno, you need to do a W.O.T. run. Wide Open Throttle.  WOT TEST:  TO TEST THE MAIN JETTING, YOU MUST BE IN FOURTH OR FIFTH GEAR, AND RUNNING FAIRLY HIGH RPM (4000+), THEN OPEN THE THROTTLE ALL THE WAY TO THE THROTTLE STOP, NOTING THE FEEL OF THE BIKE. And immediately afterwards, you shut her down, and check the plugs. But anyway, I’d changed my pipes, and I just wasn’t getting the POWER, that I thought I should have, so I put in a bigger main jet. The long hill on 84 west outa town Rolling fast on the Superglide No one in the right lane 95, 100 miles per hour some stupid SUV Plodding along at 65 eases on over check left, there’s room hit the middle lane And the plodding SUV Can’t decide, straddles the line So he hits the gap Between lanes And blasts on through But just for a sec he touched the re...