03 250ec jetting question?

[Cruiser]

Ok,, I'm working on a 03 250ec that is a friend bike,, was mine 4 years ago. I had it jetted good at the time. I pulled the carb as it runs way rich and hard to keep running. Carb was slugged up from sitting and some bad ethanol. I ran the carb in my ultrasonic carb cleaner, looks brand new. Set floats as they were way off, to 16 mm and checked jets, main180 and idle 45? I never ran that fat on either. I think it was 178/42? We run basically same altitude/temp as the last owner that had it in NC. I'm at sea level to 3k. Rarely over 95 f and high humidity. LTR needle middle position and AS carb with screw top. Also swapping rad valve to vforce3 as your reading this.
Thinking go back to 178/42 as a base? The current seams off.

[Cruiser]

Found my LTR notes,, 180 main and 48 pilot. Sounds rich so I'll stick with what's in it for now.

[GMP]

Steve,

That should be in the ballpark. The LTR or DDK is a good needle in the 250 without spending $$ on the JD kit, or a lot of screwing around with multi taper needles. The half clip leaner DEK may be what you need as well. VForce did not make much of a difference in jetting. Nice low to mid gains though.