Recent content by centurion94

Very good Sir. If my neighbor, who now owns my first Wing, does the right thing and sells it back to me (and lets me make payments...), you will find me in the GL1000 Department under "You can call me Bob". :cool: don

I wish I knew why this one was bad - I did everything joedrum said, plus polishing out the seat with a q-tip loaded with a little rubbing compound and cleaning off the runner needle seat with carb cleaner and then a wet coarse washcloth. It sure looked just like the others... remember the old...

Good morning! #1, #3 and #4 were all set to 17.5mm. That settled everybody down for about an hour. At that time, I noticed #2 was still leaking, about a drip every 5 seconds. I raised (lowered?) the float height to 18.5 to 19mm and it still leaked. When I conducted the test in the video, i...

Gentlemen, thanks in no small part to your encouragement, we are finished. 35 miles this evening hardly moved the gas gauge - the new air cut-off valves are doing their job. Did the same route as the last two times and no bogging down, plenty of torque and throttle control. We got 'er done...

:Egyptian: Gentlemen, 45 minutes after the latest tweak, the orbiting gas tank is back up to 5+ feet above the bench and all carbs are bone-dry. "Why, how in the world did he do it, Frank?" I got ticked off and cleaned up one of the original needle valves/seat arrays with carb cleaner and...

Unfortunately, no. I was hoping someone would already have that semi-established.

:headscratch: When I was in college, I took Accounting I one semester and then Accounting II the next. I barely rose above a D for these two courses. It wasn't because I didn't try, because I put more work into them than any other class. I just didn't get it. So, we thus see that I'm not the...

Okay, I've polished the seats with rubbing compound on the end of a q-tip and they've been cleaned with carb cleaner. Needles are going into a glass bowl for a little vinegar soak, then I'll rub down the points with a damp dish cloth and do the patented Joedrum mating swirly-thing. After a stern...

10-4, using anything for a mild lapping compound, or just mild pressure and friction? Air cut-offs have been replaced - that was the start of all this monkey-business, as Grandpa would describe it. Geez, I hope somebody else is getting/will get some good out of all this!

And by the way, I read something on another site that an OEM stock Honda float seat should be marked with a Keihen logo and a 1.0? These say 20, or 2.0 - problem? Or no?

Ansimp and Joedrum, you guys were reading my mind. Or I was reading yours. During the 4am trip to the bathroom it occurred to me that I probably wouldn't lose anything by lowering the float height to 18mm and then removing the strainer from each float seat and then polishing it a little by...

Float height, measured as described, is 15.5mm. #4 apparently had a little stiff to it, maybe 16mm. It'll be adjusted. But until I figure something out, the carbs are not going back on this fall.

My little gray cells are starting to itch... I just sat down on a stool at eye level with the carb bank (upside-down) on the bench. With a beer. On a whim, I put a ruler on each float, measuring from the aluminum to the actual lowest edge of each float. Even with the weight of the float on the...

This is getting absurd. I've removed both the aftermarket float needle and seat. I've measured every dimension I can think of, I've interchanged needles and seats and re-measured, and I can't find a speck of difference between old and new (keeping in mind that overflows were the cause of this...

Thanks Mike. Actually I was referring to the pressure of the rubber needle tip against it's seat. So that little spring-loaded pin is a little shock absorber; I get it!