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Packaging and Shipping Information:

One customer recently mailed his carbs to me through the US Post Office in Alabama. He did not insure them, and they lost them somewhere. The Post Office valued the 6 carbs at $50 and paid him that plus refunding his postage cost. Let’s not have that happen to you. Here’s what to do:

Use either UPS or FedEx if possible.

Insure the carbs for at least $500. They are worth more when we ship them back to you, so our shipping will include insurance for $1,000. When figuring out how much to pay me for shipping, just ship them to me and then add to PayPal what you paid for shipping for the return. We will pay the extra charge for the higher insurance. $1,000 insurance costs about $15. We think that’s cheap. And if they lose your carbs, we can easily document that they were worth at least $1,000. With that much insurance on them, the shipper will probably keep track of them better.

After removal from your bike, remove the rubber tubes that attach to the bottoms of the carbs. These are drain lines only, and they go into a plastic fitting that joins all 6 together and then directs any fuel into another hose that terminates near the kickstand. Keep those hoses for reinstallation (or throw them away, your choice). If you are desmogging the bike, which we recommend, it looks nice to have that whole area open and free of clutter like those hoses. With the drain hoses off, loosen the drain screws from the bowls, about 2 turns is more than sufficient. Shake the carbs and turn them every which way to get as much of the fuel out as possible. Do not blow compressed air in there! Then re-tighten those drain screws (just snug them up).

If you didn’t remove the chrome intakes when removing the carbs, remove them and keep them there. I don’t need them to do my work, so there’s no need to pay for shipping them back and forth.

If you have velocity stacks or fake filters on top of your carbs, take them off and replace the screws into the plastic vacuum chamber covers. Be careful, there’s a spring under there. I need the plastic covers and screws, but not your special carb jewelry.

Put the whole rack of carbs, with everything connected just the way they came off your bike, into a plastic trash bag. The heavy duty black “construction” bags work great, but even kitchen garbage can liners will do. Tie the bag into a knot, sealing it up as well as possible. I’m not talking about tying the drawstrings together. Actually, tie the excess bag into a knot because it will seal better that way.

Put the bagged carbs into a second bag and tie it up again. We want to be doubly sure that someone at a shipping point doesn’t smell the gasoline. 

Then box it all up in a sturdy box. Or you can take the carbs with your 2 trash bags in hand to the local UPS Store, show them what you are shipping, bag it in front of them, and have them make a box for you. There’s an extra charge for their box, but that’s one option.​

Add insurance.

Send me your tracking number. We will let you know when they arrive.

Payment:

If you prefer, you can stick a personal check into the box with your carbs. Or mail a check separately. Or a money order. Or use PayPal. We are not picky.

The easiest for us is for you to pay through PayPal. You can send your payment to our supplied email address. 

We are not set up to process credit card or debit card payments.

If there becomes a need for extra money to cover unexpected costs (such as a failed air cutoff valve), we will let you know, and we will deal with that separately. This is rare, and we can’t know until we get them apart.

Things we need to know about you and your bike:

Please copy and paste this portion into an email. Then fill in the answers. This will help us get it set up just right.

1. How do I contact you?

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