Revs shoot up when carb rubber tightened

[JamieNeve]

Me and my limited carb knowledge has been completely thrown off by this, here goes:

With everything tightened down, my bike was idling at around 8k, I started loosening things one step at a time, and when loosening carb no. 3 rubber jubilee clip the rev's dropped and it idled fine, I then tightened it and the revs shot up again, and vice versa.

I thought that this meant it was rich, as when tightening the jubilee clip I am obviously removing the excess air, so I leaned out the pilot jet. This made no difference so I richened it to see if it changed, same thing again.

No holes or splits in carb runners, am completely baffled and am completely new to carbs,

Any ideas,

Thanks!

[cargo]

I guess you've got the clip in the wrong position and the screw is touching on the carb operating mechanism

[JamieNeve]

Removed all the rubbers, put them all back on and made sure everything was sat properly. All sorted now, thanks Cargo