{"id":66757,"date":"2013-11-18T22:54:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T13:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=66757"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:43:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:43:44","slug":"sportster-1200-little-by-little-changes-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20131118\/everyday-events\/sportster-1200-little-by-little-changes-part-3","title":{"rendered":"Sportster 1200: Little by Little Changes, Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"decob-3699563281\" class=\"decob- decob-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/advertise\" aria-label=\"ad_sample_1456_180_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png 1456w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-1024x127.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-768x95.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1456px) 100vw, 1456px\" width=\"812\" height=\"100\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p>I figured I could wrap everything up in a day\u2014a comfortable plan, but\u2026<br \/>\nIt continues on Wednesday\u2026<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/492584_10155853_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The lever gets reused and fits<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/492584_10155853_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The fit is fine\u2014I cut and filed it with a contour tool. That&#8217;s as far as I can push it.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/492584_10155853_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>I was thinking about installing the carburetor, but when I peeked inside it was so dirty I had to take it apart<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/492584_10155853_3.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>A quick check turned into this\u2026who knew it would get like this\u2026The slide valve and diaphragm were both all gummy.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/492584_10155853_4.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>There was sediment too.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/492584_10155853_5.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The idle adjustment screw and rubber were both cracked, so I cleaned them up with heat shrink.<br \/>\nI also checked the carburetor passages and gave it a good cleaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I figured I could wrap everything up in a day\u2014a comfortable plan, but\u2026 It continues on Wednesday\u2026&nbsp; &nbsp;The lever gets reused and fits&nbsp; &nbsp;The fit is fine\u2014I cut and filed it with a contour tool. That&#8217;s as far as I can push it.&nbsp; &nbsp;I was thinking about installing the carburetor, but when I peeked inside it was so dirty I had to take it apart&nbsp; &nbsp;A quick check turned into this\u2026who knew it would get like this\u2026The slide valve and diaphragm were both all gummy.&nbsp; &nbsp;There was sediment too.&nbsp; &nbsp;The idle adjustment screw and rubber were both cracked, so I cleaned them up with heat shrink. I also checked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[117,55],"class_list":["post-66757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-harley-davidson","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}