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I pulled my carb out recently and knocked off the bead that holds the brown sleeve in place for the throttle. I think it moves around now and the idle screw doesn't stay in one spot. Have any of you fixed this before? Can you weld in a new bead? Drill it and put a screw in? Thoughts? The carb is fine otherwise. just made the idot move and jammed it in there without thinking...

Mr flinthills76,

flinthills76 wrote:I pulled my carb out recently and knocked off the bead that holds the brown sleeve in place for the throttle

Can't see a 'bead' in throttle sleeve (slider) area. Can you help home us in on the part?

flinthills76 wrote:and the idle screw doesn't stay in one spot.

Is your reference to the idle screw a second problem? There's nothing like a 'bead' on that, but there should be a spring to keep it from rotating.


Thanks - mousewheels

It's in the clylinder (not on the brown sleeve) on the other side of the idle screw, about a 1/4 from the top. if you look into the cylinder where the brown sleeve goes in. the brown sleeve I have has two slots on it, straight across from each other. Does that make sense?

I have a 1989 honda elite E BTW.

I can send you a new throttle cable from an '89 elite for 10$ plus s&h

flinthills76 wrote:It's in the clylinder (not on the brown sleeve) on the other side of the idle screw, about a 1/4 from the top. if you look into the cylinder where the brown sleeve goes in. the brown sleeve I have has two slots on it, straight across from each other. Does that make sense?
I have a 1989 honda elite E BTW.

I understand... It's the "tit" that aligns the brown sleeve and keeps it from spinning. Not sure how you can fix it short of a new carb body. I have one but threads are stripped on the inside mountin hole. Not much help, huh.