$35 dollars is right on line if not cheap. I usally buy the pro series for around $55. I don't think they are any cheaper for any other bike. When I put the new ones in I like to debur the edges of the larger reeds with #400 sand paper. I was in a pinch once and mine were bowed open and felt soft like you sink you finger nail into them. I was going to flip them, but with them being soft I decided to see want happen if I heated them with a heat gun. I sprayed them with contact cleaner let them dry then hit them with moderate heat from the heat gun. They layed flat after that. I feel that the resin in the reeds get attacked by the something in the gas or oil. I got the idea from accidently dropping an oring in the solvent tank and it swelled up. I needed the oring then and there. I took the heat gun to it and amazingly shrank it to its normal size. The heat gun might be worth a try just don't go over board.
|