Excellent work Pete! Those things are well stuck with some kind of badass locktite aren't they!
The grinding approach is a backup. I'm glad you didn't have to resort to that
A note on jetting. I started the bike yesterday in freezing weather. It barely needed a momentary choke. Stalled, and then it started without choke, bone cold. I think I am a bit rich on the pilot jet.
The other think it did was it started to drift up to a high idle. I am pretty sure this same behavior happened to someone else recently. I thought maybe it was leaning out from a intake spigot leak (the rubber connector between the carb and head). But this really makes no sense since it didn't even need choke to start at 32 degrees cold!
I put the bike back under the tarp. Too cold to ride. This doesn't affect performance, but I would sure like to know what is causing this
