Topic: 74 CB750 Carbs 2 & 3 Sooty Rich After Cleaning

[Wingnut74]

 I rebuilt the carbs completely after I rebuilt the engine and everything was working fine in terms of richness the plugs were a perfect light brown color on all four carbs. T then I developed a very slight stammering problem than I originally thought was fixed but I blamed it on the carbs and so I took them off and did a thorough cleaning.  my cleaning was focused on those intake passages for the pilot circuit. I used the smallest two wires on the standard carb cleaning kits and reamed them clean.  carb 4  was the only one that seem to have significant blockage but it ran perfect before and after.  I sprayed all the orifices with Gumout and hit them with compressed air also.  I then reset all the float Heights to 26 mm.  now carbs number two and three run very rich and sooty where they were perfect before.   I should've mentioned also that I had 105 mains and 40 pilot jets both before and after and stock airbox. I just tried setting the fuel level extra low on carb number 2 at 28 mm below and it's still very swea I just tried setting the fuel level extra low and Carbone number 2 at 8 mm below and it's still very sooty.  I fear maybe I reamed out the air passages for the pilot circuit too much any thoughts? Could those two smallest wires have been too big?

[flybox1]

Clear tube test all carb bowls for accurate fuel level.

[Wingnut74]

Thats the funny thing. Carb 2 was super sooty and clear tube showed level at exactly gasket surface (pretty high), then dropped it to a super low 8mm lower and still super black sooty, so that made me think it can't be float level issue. Does that seem right?