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To Friends and former clients of Darrell Elmore and HOG HEAVEN This is a notice of repair/ performance on the Chopster that Darrell made. The Repair Cost of one Mikuni carburetor by Capital HD in Dilbeek was € 458.15 and the carburetor was never cleaned or repaired. See email reply below I did some research on your story with the carb thou and it seemed that our student-technician didn't totally had to use the second rebuild kit because the bike was running wel at the moment without it. He only blew out the passages aparently at that one (Sporty). Both bikes were test ridden at that time! Still strange the floatbowl was empty now … I guess we ran it with a closed petcock at last. Anyway I suggest to refund you the amount of the rebuild kit (43.87euro) with a credit note. The mechanic admitted that he only blew out the ports, and did nothing to rebuild or repair it. They gave me a plastic bag with some old parts from two motorcycles; (1) repaired and (1) not repaired, (see photo) from someone else's Mikuni and tried to pass them off as mine. One set was from a second bike (Darrell's) that I had repaired for same reason; the pictures and copies of parts and of emails will confirm all that I am stating. After receiving the bike back; the petcock at the gas tank was still stuck and the float valve was frozen/oxidized so bad no gas could possibly get in the carburetor bowl, but yet they say they were able to start and test ride the bike. When I was there you started the bike revved the engine (the only way it would run) for a few seconds before it ran out of the gas. That gas in the bowl had to have been put in the bowl thru other means. Like thru the overflow tube or the vent tube. No way did it end up in there from the gas tank and fuel line. I'm not a mechanic on motorcycles but personally I removed the Mikuni, opened it and saw all ports, Float valve, Pilot jet, and screws heads were badly corroded. The screws were so corroded (see photo) that they had to be removed with a chisel on the sides of the heads because the screwdriver slots were full of corrosion. Float valve was corroded solidly to the float tube (see photo) and couldn't move to allow any gas into the float bowl, Yet they say they took it out I have two custom made Harley Davidson motorcycles that wouldn't start because the gas float valves were stuck in both of them. I took them to CAPITAL H. D. in Dilbeek, Belgium to have them repaired and cleaned. They both have 42 mm Mikuni Carburetors on them. They returned them a few days later and charged me €1,459.81. The cleaning fee was €420 that was pre-agreed upon to be no more than €300 for both bikes. The bike they refer to as Pink Sporty was given back to me as being repaired and running. The charge for repairing that one carburetor was €458.15.The labor was for 6.5 hours. After I took them home it wouldn't start because there was no gas in the float bowl and the tank had fuel and petcock was open and operational. I contacted the supervisor of the mechanics telling him of the problem and below is his reply. "See email reply below" I did some research on your story with the carb thou and it seemed that our student-technician didn't totally had to use the second rebuild kit because the bike was running well at the moment without it. He only blew out the passages aparently at that one (Sporty). Both bikes were test ridden at that time! Still strange the floatbowl was empty now … I guess we ran it with a closed petcock at last. Anyway I suggest to refund you the amount of the rebuild kit (43.87euro) with a credit note The mechanic admitted that he only blew out the ports, and did nothing to rebuild or repair it. (BUT they charged me for 6.5 hours of Labor)They gave me a plastic bag with some old parts from two motorcycles; (1) repaired and (1) not repaired, (see photo) from someone else's Mikuni and tried to pass them off as mine. One set was from the second bike of the two that I had repaired for same reason; the pictures and copies of parts and of emails will confirm all that I am stating. After receiving the bike back; the petcock at the gas tank was still stuck and the float valve was frozen/oxidized so bad no gas could possibly get in the carburetor bowl, but yet they say they were able to start and test ride the bike. When I was there you started the bike revved the engine (the only way it would run) for a few seconds before it ran out of the gas. That gas in the bowl had to have been put in For a test ride. Pilot jet was broke off at base (see photo) and I had to drill it out and re-thread the hole to insert a new pilot jet. My total time spent was just under 3 hours from start, including re-threading to replace the pilot jet, to finish and starting and riding the bike.