geremacheks
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- Feb 14, 2002
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What's keeping the carb float pin from loosening, or starting to fall out, when carb is put back together. Anything at all? Can the pin go in from either side of the carb? How does it stay there? I'm wondering if I have a problem there.
Been having some trouble with gas leaking straight through the carb vent tubes. After clening the carb out, and putting it back together several times, because the leak did not stop, I looked for another solution and adjusted the float on somebody's advice.
Now I'm sure the float wasn't the problem initially. So I'm trying to adjust the float level back to normal positioning. Float level now seems to stick, with gas leaking out the vent. :whiner: Dirt has been cleaned out, and tip of valve fine. Orifices are clean. I'm sure now that the float adjustment is not correct and causing lean conditons at idle and low circuits because I fooled with it. Jetting was near perfect before the initial leaking, and before I touched the float levels. So I don't think it is that. Now just trying to get the float back to where it was.
Again, before all this, the jetting was beautiful. But after the float adjustment, the idle and low circuits sound lean, and acts like its running out of fuel. Also at idle, in neutral, wick the throttle and the bike will near kill. I think that means lean setting on the float.
Now I'm back to square one with the gas leaking from the carb vent tube non stop. My last step was adjusting the float tab DOWN for richer conditions to solve this fuel starving condition on idle and low circuits. I'm guessing at these adjustments, but doing them slightly, becaues I am not pulling the carb completyly off the bike. Wouldn't have the tools or the knowledge to do it that way anyhow.
Suggestions? Thanks.
Been having some trouble with gas leaking straight through the carb vent tubes. After clening the carb out, and putting it back together several times, because the leak did not stop, I looked for another solution and adjusted the float on somebody's advice.
Now I'm sure the float wasn't the problem initially. So I'm trying to adjust the float level back to normal positioning. Float level now seems to stick, with gas leaking out the vent. :whiner: Dirt has been cleaned out, and tip of valve fine. Orifices are clean. I'm sure now that the float adjustment is not correct and causing lean conditons at idle and low circuits because I fooled with it. Jetting was near perfect before the initial leaking, and before I touched the float levels. So I don't think it is that. Now just trying to get the float back to where it was.
Again, before all this, the jetting was beautiful. But after the float adjustment, the idle and low circuits sound lean, and acts like its running out of fuel. Also at idle, in neutral, wick the throttle and the bike will near kill. I think that means lean setting on the float.
Now I'm back to square one with the gas leaking from the carb vent tube non stop. My last step was adjusting the float tab DOWN for richer conditions to solve this fuel starving condition on idle and low circuits. I'm guessing at these adjustments, but doing them slightly, becaues I am not pulling the carb completyly off the bike. Wouldn't have the tools or the knowledge to do it that way anyhow.
Suggestions? Thanks.