I disassembled my carbs, gave them a "good enough" cleaning just to start the bike, and even replaced the floats. The floats are not the exact part for my carbs, but they were the closest I could find.
While the floats are not to exact specifications, they do appear very operable in my carbs. From what I can tell, they are for the same brand carbs (Mikuni), same model (BS38), but with
slightly different specs because they were put on a Yamaha (instead of a Kawasaki). Here is where I got them from:
www.mikesxs.net/product/20-6500.html
Anyway... I put everything back together, and began to set the float level on Carb #1. Upon turning on the fuel, the float bowl immediately filled to about 3mm. The service manual says 4.5mm-6.5mm. So I took the float bowl off, did a tiny bend-a-roo of the float tang, and reassembled. But now, the float bowl didn't fill... at all. I checked a few things, and double-checked to make sure I didn't bend the tang poorly. Nothing. I then decided to give carb #2 a try. I didn't even get fuel into the float bowl on the first try.
Fuel is flowing freely out the fuel line if I disconnect the fuel line from the carb and open the petcock.
So... now that I explained everything... what should I check first to get the fuel flowing into the carbs? And, should I be able to blow air into the fuel intake nipples on the carbs? Because I can't.
