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Message: [QUOTE="Colorado, post: 1057701, member: 60368"] My Clymer's shows a float level tool for setting the level of my IT400 mikuni, but I don't have one, so just used a small carpenter's combination square. But the process in the book is a little confusing. The book is outside, but I think the setting was something like .71 inches. It has two photos of different carbs, because it covers all displacement ITs of that vintage. One photo has the float level tool illustrated on a carb where the float hinges with the float arm. The other photo is like my carb, where the floats actually ride on pins in the float bowl. It shows the carb, upside down, with lines drawn from the end of the brass float arm and the body of the carb, then arrows drawn pointing to the two lines about an inch away from the body where the float bowl goes. Does anyone know if that point, about an inch out, is where I am supposed to take my measurement? If I bend the tang to get .71 at the end of the arm itself the measurement taken an inch out will be much greater than .71 (if I took a picture and drew lines they would not be parallel -- they would be widening out at an angle). The Clymer's is not clear about where the measurement is taken, and the text doesn't say that the arrows signify the correct place. Does anyone know for certain how the mikunis with the floats on pins are measured? I set it at the end of the arm, and the bike runs okay, but sometimes when I turn it off gas will pour out of the overflow lines, though it doesn't run or drip out if I leave the petcock open with the bike off. Thanks for any help! [/QUOTE]

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