Originally Posted by
grizz1
It is important you set the needles, especialy the LSN with this .7 - 1mm gap for a proper tune and performance, otherwise you run into the problem of a false tune with a rich LSN and a lean HSN but the motor will still run reasonable (with associated problems) - all due to the idle gap being too wide. Hope this all makes sense

I had this exact issue as my idle gap was a little high.... setting the gap to .7mm made a huge improvement.