Topic: Need help, please

[traveler]

but the tip of my needle is rubber!

~Joe

[cameron]

OK..

So it DOESn'T leak when you manually move the float.

It DOES leak when the bowls are ON,..

It must be the float.

Maybe the float is rubbing against the BOWL? So it is frozen with the bowl on?

[traveler]

when I had the bowl off yesterday, and then put it back on....I moved the carb back and forth, and could hear the float moving in there.

~Joe

[cameron]

Hmm.
Well, lets postulate that the Float is floating.

THEN, the only thing that can possibly be preventing gas shut-off is the valve, right?
If the float is good, the valve must be either bad or sitting wrong.
Have you tried switching that valve to a different carb? (maybe the float, too, just in case?) That seems like a good idea.

Luckily, I heard that if your carb leaks enough gas into your engine, the whole thing can actually explode while you are riding.

[traveler]

It's not leaking THAT much fuel....it is running a tad bit richer than the other cylinders.



~Joe

[Kframe]

Just tossing this out there (don't even know if this would cause the problem) but... is the float being installed upside-down? 

-K

[droopy]

had a float that was slightly twisted on one side would move fine butt with fuel would catch on float bowl  look at float several times before i saw it

[traveler]

i'll check it again...thanks.

[flybox1]

I still think its a faulty float valve....or the spring inside it.
yeah your float is good, but the pressure it imparts on the valve is much less than your finger.

i'd say you have an original float valve with a worn out spring, or you rebuilt your carbs and the new valve is not seating properly with the pressure your float applies as the gas rises...

am i way off base?

[Flying J]

I still think its a faulty float valve....or the spring inside it.
yeah your float is good, but the pressure it imparts on the valve is much less than your finger.

i'd say you have an original float valve with a worn out spring, or you rebuilt your carbs and the new valve is not seating properly with the pressure your float applies as the gas rises...

am i way off base?

Im with ya on that one. I would change the needles around and see if the problem stayed or moved.