kx_125_pilot wrote:
so whats the "wet" method of adjusting your floats? Can you explain it to me?
Buddy, I'll tell you how I did it. If someone with a better method chimes in, we will all benefit. I took one of those foldable locking top benches outside and I tightened the sliding top up until it supported the entire carb rack, as a unit. I just set the rack between the boards. I lifted the rack out and removed the dime sized brass screw on the bottom/side of a float bowl. I stuck a chunk of 6 mm (i think) hose into the float bowl hole, after wrapping some of that white teflon plumbers tape on the end, being inserted. I put the rack back between the boards. I put a small funnel into the hose that goes from my tank to the carb rack. I use 1/4 inch black bulk fuel line, that you can get anywere. I poured small amounts of gas into this hose and the inline fuel filter attached to it. As the gas filled all the carbs, the clear 6mm tubing stuck in the float bowl would also fill up. I held the carb rack in the bench, held the clear tube close to the side of the carb, and I could see the level were my floats were sitting from the gas lifting them up. For the 650 I had to have this gas level/line within 1/8 th inch of the float bowl top edge or lip. If I was over or below, I would pull the clear tube out and drain the gas into a plastic yogurt container, to be used again. If the float level was off I had to take the float bowl off that carb and remove the float. The float is held in with a skinny little stainless steel pin. You can remove the float easily by pushing the stainless pin over a bit, then pull it out sideways with your fingers. The part that gets adjusted is the brass metal tab on the float, it is between the two round black puck looking deals. Just bend that little brass lip, very mildly, don't go nuts. Remember that this little tab shuts the fuel off, so the more you bend it up, the lower your fuel level will be.
Post edited by: gas, at: 2006/04/26 18:33