After cleaning the carb, tank, petcock, air box, new air filter and fresh mixed gas
there are a few things over looked. Repack the muffler. Check the reed cage.
I'm using the stock reeds and cage on this bike. I do have a reed spacer, it's about
3/8 of an inch. Upon inspection of my reeds I found one to have a small chip on the
corner. I'll get a picture in a few day before I put everything back together.
The chip is an issue but it still seals. I plan to get the bike running with it.
After that I have 2, I've heard, hard to find V Force Delta 2 reed cages
made by Moto Tassinari. I'm not up on the how and why of a reed spacer
and the V Force cage, I'll have to go through some of the old threads to check it out.
Stock cage on the left.