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[Craig]

Striped and Cleaned my Long standing & Long Running 350 (India) 350 ...any way i found in its upper half :where the Slide & Needle go a small 5mm Ball Bearing??? Never noticed one before in a Clean up or on other Bullets I have looked after so todays Question: VM24 & a Small 5mm aprox Ball Bearing? "Foreign Object" or "Lose Part" ............... My Bikes Reluctance to start was either that Ball Bearing or "I Think" part RUBBER CAP, THROTTLE CABLE Code: 141956 had split and disintegrated enough to hold the cable up a bit ..Still a Bit of fine tunning to do yet but Great Bike and Great Carb.. ;0)

[Gwilly]

I can only think its the nipple from the end of the throttle cable, broken off..

Check your cable is still intact, Surely it can't be left from a previous broken cable...

[Craig]

nope.it is a ball bearing...

[Beezabryan]

Bet the previous owner is still wondering where that ball went

[ric]

Perhaps it was placed there to stop the slide from fully opening?

[Presto]

There are three or four small brass ball bearings used to blank off various drillings in the carb body. Other than it being one of those it must be a ‘foreign’ body that has lost its way.

[Paul M H]

Only other thing I can think of is the little locating peg in the side of the slide bore that stops the slide rotating in bore.