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Message: [QUOTE="BRush, post: 523065, member: 18729"] You have to remove the carb from the bike to accurately check the float. The carb needs to in a true vertical position. There are a couple of different ways to do it. The best way is with the graduated tube that screws into bottom of the float bowel. I bought the Kawasaki one and it was not horribly expensive (~ USD $24) That allows you to actually confirm the level is correct, but it requires more work and is more dangerous than the alternate methods because you need to actually run fuel into the carb (and gas is flammable, so care must be taken) when the carb is off the bike. There are a couple of ways to do this. One is to attach a longer tube to your gas tank petcock and get a friend to hold the carb, while you deal with the measurement tube. That uses your bike's tank as the source of the fuel. I ended up making a simple test stand, using a plastic shampoo bottle as a small gas tank and a brass petcock I bought at Home Depot to control flow to the carb. The bottle was duct taped to a short 2x4 and a small bracket to rest the carb on added slightly below. Bending the tang is a trial and error thing: Bend the tang, put the float bowel back together, check the level, repeat as required. Not that I should have to say it, but let's remember that gasoline is extremely flammable, so make sure the area you’re working in a well ventilated area and that there are no sources of ignition (A basement with hot water heaters and furnaces is an extremely poor place for this). The other methods involve measuring the float position and are less accurate, but generally quicker. The service manual outlines one procedure and a couple others can be found here: [url]http://justkdx.dirtrider.net/floatlevel.html[/url] [/QUOTE]

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