Topic: flooded carbs

[Burnboy]

If you flood the carbs by twisting the throttle too much will the excess gas shoot into the air filter? This is what mine is doing and I opened the carbs up and the floats are just fine, not sure why the carb over flow lines arent working though, they seem to be free flowing.

[Burnboy]

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[BeSeeingYou]

Twisting the throttle while it may flood the engine should not cause the bowls to overflow.  Could be  worn needle valves/seats or some piece of crud is keeping the needle valve from seating.  Could also be a leaking float.  If you have copper floats they can get pinholes or small hairline cracks with age.  While this may cause leakage into the air filter I am not sure how gas could be shooting into the air filter against the flow.

[Hush]

I've had 2 of the black plastic ones sink on me.
If you flood the bike, the excess usually gets sucked out the exhaust ports not backwards to the airfilters?

[Burnboy]

yeah once the bowls are full and I turn the bike over gas just squirts out of the ports on the carb into the filter