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::) Now unlike my learned friend in Western Washington, nor my pal in VA I do not ride in the winter time. I also never did any cab changes on either bike. Now Red is and has been running since date of purchase , Roadhouse exhaust and K&N air filter. Pearl is stock exhaust and K&N air filter. 
   On Red after a few thousand kms I have never had an issue with power or such, and in the case of the plugs the front is a text book perfect tan colour while the rear is a bit darker. valves have always been well with in specs. 
  On Pearl I used seafoam as I only bought her in Oct. plugs are also in proper colour spectrum, have not done valves yet. 
 
   Now on both bikes I have noticed they are both cold hearted ladies and take a bit to warm up, never noticed any black smoke, yes white at startup, but once up to temp there is no smoke. Now when doing the valve checks the inside of the engine is always really nice and clean no build up of anything. 
  So wht did this jet kit actually do for the bike?

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Posted by Pilgrim

- January 01, 2018, 19:40:54 PM

It's just running a little rich because it's cold. Won't hurt it. If you choose you can run some seafoam in the gas to keep everything clean. I pour a little in my tank a couple times a year. 3-4 oz. I don't measure it just pour some in.

Posted by Tfrank59

- January 01, 2018, 16:09:38 PM

So a little background on my girl, when I bought her she was definitely anemic and Troll and some of the other gurus on this forum said I needed to put a jet kit in it which I did and it's been running great ever since. Then last spring I put in a K&N filter and everything still runs great. So here's the question I have, when the thing is cold for about the first couple of minutes especially here in the winter this black crap comes out the exhaust pipes and it looks just like soot. So is that because it's probably rich on the mixture? And is that going to carbon up the whole inside of my engine? After I've run, like I said, 5-10 minutes everything clears out and I don't see any color in the exhaust at all and the thing runs like a champ. Do you think I should I lean it out a little bit or leave it alone? My gut tells me to leave it alone since it runs so good. What say ye?

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