Difficulty turning up pump

Thatoneguy

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Hey guys, so I recently got my hypermax Cowl installed finally. Wanted to play around with turning up my fuel. I've got the 5/32" Allen key in place but for the life of me I can't get the ****** to turn. I have ackward you large hands so it's already difficult to get down there but even when I do manage to get the Allen key on the bolt, I can't get it to turn. I'll put pressure on to turn it and eventually the Allen key pops outa place before it actually turns. Other is possible that the pump is already turned all the way up? I don't get much black smoke at all unless I'm parked and gun it up to almost 3k. Help please
 

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If I remember right on mine, it wouldn't turn either, but I knew it wasn't turned up. It was NA, and didn't smoke at all; plus it still had that seal thingy-ma-job I could see before taking the cover off.

I ended up using a small mallet to gently tap the allen wrench; it worked.
 

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If I remember right on mine, it wouldn't turn either, but I knew it wasn't turned up. It was NA, and didn't smoke at all; plus it still had that seal thingy-ma-job I could see before taking the cover off.

I ended up using a small mallet to gently tap the allen wrench; it worked.

Are you talking about the rubber gasket like thing? I might try the mallet trick. And I think I'm gonna get myself a T-Handle Allen set. That would probably help a lot too.
 

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Be sure you have an extraordinarily strong and well-made 5/32" allen if you are going to tap it. I'd hate to hear you rounded it off or broke it off in the IP.

In my vans, it really hard to gain access to the fuel screw and hold the allen wrench. Also, it's hard to turn it, so I keep a 3-inch long section of 3/8" metal tubing that I can slip over the end of the allen wrench. This allows me to apply SLIGHTLY more pressure on the turning of the fuel screw, without the need to resort to a pounding the allen with a mallet.
 

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Be sure you have an extraordinarily strong and well-made 5/32" allen if you are going to tap it. I'd hate to hear you rounded it off or broke it off in the IP.

In my vans, it really hard to gain access to the fuel screw and hold the allen wrench. Also, it's hard to turn it, so I keep a 3-inch long section of 3/8" metal tubing that I can slip over the end of the allen wrench. This allows me to apply SLIGHTLY more pressure on the turning of the fuel screw, without the need to resort to a pounding the allen with a mallet.

I like that idea. I can't even reach mine with the short end of the Allen. Gotta use the long end. But I can't turn it backwards either even with slipping a socket over the short end to give me more meat to grab .
 

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Just don't like the mallet idea...
It's kinda like that 'gorilla in the closet, or elephant in the living room', sort of thing, if you know that you're more often times fall into the either of those categories, don't attempt, but I'd hope most here have turned a screw, or two would know when is enough. I know for myself, I cannot quite feel when applying pressure to a tiny ass allen wrench when 'too much, is too much', before it snaps. That's where the idea of a light mallet worked for me, I guess I can feel the sharp taps better than putting pressure to a little bitty 'strippable' allen screw, lol.
 

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Use a small deepwell socket (1/4") attached to and extension. Slide the socket over the end of the allen wrench. This will give you plenty of leverage plus get the tool up where you can grasp it.
 

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