Hey all, thought I'd introduce myself with a question

Just picked up an 87' raider recently (170k miles), silver with a single bouncy seat, 5 speed manual and the "off-road package" is it? Anyways I knew it would need a new engine somewhere down the road, but wanted to fix the puff of smoke on startup; and replacing the valve seals turned into needing a new cylinder head turned into just going ahead and getting a re manufactured engine <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

After that I suppose I will be getting some new wheels and tires (the factory steel wheels are bent, so les schwab tells me). Maybe some 15x7 black rock crawler rims with 30x9.5x15 tires($1k <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/zombie.gif" alt="" /> ) But I will be replacing idler arm, upper control arm shafts, etc. to see if that is the cause of slightly shaky wheel which comes and goes.

The point of the post, I will be taking the truck back to ND
in fall (two years left in aviation school), and I need to know if the carb. will be an issue with cold winters back there (the coldest I imagine running it will be -15 deg. F). Since I have the 2.6l with that difficult carb. now, will the extra $400 now for a weber make sense? I have read a few archived posts about the Mikuni being a pain in the really cold stuff.

Any other issues I may run into with what little I have told you? Besides never having issue with being stuck in snow

-Brian