centurion94
Active member
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 pressed the float all the way up snug and it still dripped, never shut off all the way.
That's when I brought out one of the original needles and seats, cleaned them up with carb cleaner and installed them. Leak gone. In a perfect world, I would open it back up again and reset the #2 float height to 17.5 like the others. In fact, if I ever take these off again, I'll probably clean up the rest of the originals, reinstall them, reset all floats to 15.5mm, repeat the test in the video and call it all good. But it runs really, really well now, it's late in the season and I still maybe can get some riding in before winterizing (with Seafoam this time). I want to run through this tank of gas to get an idea of how much the new air cut-offs have done for my mileage.
As was said, this is what happens when you throw money at a problem instead of trying the obvious first. That was a $100 lesson, which in some circles is called "smart money". I'm now $100 smarter. The real value of this thread is illustrating the problem and solution for others. The smart man, such as myself, learns $100 lessons. The wise man learns from his lesson, and saves the $100 :good:
Maximum blessings,
don
#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 pressed the float all the way up snug and it still dripped, never shut off all the way.
That's when I brought out one of the original needles and seats, cleaned them up with carb cleaner and installed them. Leak gone. In a perfect world, I would open it back up again and reset the #2 float height to 17.5 like the others. In fact, if I ever take these off again, I'll probably clean up the rest of the originals, reinstall them, reset all floats to 15.5mm, repeat the test in the video and call it all good. But it runs really, really well now, it's late in the season and I still maybe can get some riding in before winterizing (with Seafoam this time). I want to run through this tank of gas to get an idea of how much the new air cut-offs have done for my mileage.
As was said, this is what happens when you throw money at a problem instead of trying the obvious first. That was a $100 lesson, which in some circles is called "smart money". I'm now $100 smarter. The real value of this thread is illustrating the problem and solution for others. The smart man, such as myself, learns $100 lessons. The wise man learns from his lesson, and saves the $100 :good:
Maximum blessings,
don
