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[BlasterMaster15]

about 3 weeks ago i blew one of my reeds on my blaster stock reed cage. today i was riding trying to get the carb adjusted and it would bog hard at idle over half a turn of the air screw. a few minutes later it bogged down really hard and died. i drained the gas into a plastic tub and go figure it was bad and completely seperated. i put in fresh gas and nothing happened. pulled out the reed cage and one of my almost new reeds was busted. am i doing somethign wrong here? why did this happen again?

 

[toytech]

what kind of reeds are they? make sure you don't over tighten the screws and crack the reeds, and use loctite.

 

[Awk08]

i had troubles with aftermarket reeds when not using the reed stop, IMO on a stock cage, the reed stop must be used, contrary to what the instructions said, this last set, before i went vf3, didnt break, i caught it in time, but they fluttered bad at WOT, but i had a set of boyson dual stage carbons break once, way the hell out in bumfug egypt, ran home on a shee and got my stockers and reed stops

so are you running the reed stops ????????

 

[BlasterMaster15]

what exactly are reed stops, the bent out peices of metal on the stock reeds? no i used the flat pieces of metal that came with them, they are vitos carbon flex reeds. can i use my one good reed petal from the old reeds and cut it to size to replace it?

 

[slickerthanyou]

what exactly are reed stops, the bent out peices of metal on the stock reeds? no i used the flat pieces of metal that came with them, they are vitos carbon flex reeds. can i use my one good reed petal from the old reeds and cut it to size to replace it?

Yes the bent metal pieces are the stops, they prevent the reeds from opening too much. And you can try to cut the old reeds to size, for temp solution, but probably should run it long like that as there will be two different kinds of flex and probably is gonna affect performance. But in a pinch i would do it!