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Joined: Feb 15, 2009 Posts: 162 Location: Behind the Redwood Curtain
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:08 pm Post subject:
Ah, not so
No ride for me. That was not the drain plug but the overflow. Different from my other bike so I missed it.
Bent float tang. No gas. Bent back. Flood. Did this more times than I can remember. Can't find the happy medium. Don't want to pull the carb to do it like it says in the book.
Joined: Feb 15, 2009 Posts: 162 Location: Behind the Redwood Curtain
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:37 pm Post subject:
Well, when I say "the book" I mean Clymers. My copy of the Honda Manual just gives a float height. The Clymers wants you to tip the carb, presumably to keep the needle on its seat. I think I can get an assistant to hold the needle up while I take the float height measurement. What do you think?
What I get from the instructions are that when the float is at the correct height. (19mm from float bottom to carb body edge) the tang shoud just touch the seated valve. Is that right?
Joined: Feb 15, 2007 Posts: 1356 Location: LaPorte, Indiana, USA
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:53 pm Post subject:
Edy wrote:
Well, when I say "the book" I mean Clymers. My copy of the Honda Manual just gives a float height. The Clymers wants you to tip the carb, presumably to keep the needle on its seat. I think I can get an assistant to hold the needle up while I take the float height measurement. What do you think?
What I get from the instructions are that when the float is at the correct height. (19mm from float bottom to carb body edge) the tang shoud just touch the seated valve. Is that right?
No - fuel shuts off at the right height.
That's usually "beyond" the first contact beyween the tab and needle - it has to get pushed into the seat....
I always set the floats with fuel actually running through the carb.
Yeah, it gets messy, but you'll know for sure when the fuel actually stops. _________________ Bill Lane - CB200-CM200-CB450-C70M-CL350
"When your only tool is a hammer,
everything starts to look like a nail."
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