First, let me say that at 47 years old I have been working on mechanical things all my life and have a pretty fair understanding of internal combustion engines and fluid dynamics.
I do accept that I can sometimes miss something that may seam obvious to someone else and also that I am willing to listen and learn.
Here goes...
I have been into my carb, disassembled, cleaned, adjusted float, reassembled too many times to count and I cannot stop that darned thing from flooding. I have checked that the float floats, checked that the float shut-off actually shuts of the fuel flow into the carb bowl, I have adjusted the float tangs down as far as to be ridiculous and should just about prevent the carb from getting any fuel at all, I have eyeballed this thing, contemplated every possible flaw that I can think of but it continues to overflow the bowl and flood.
Yesterday, out of pure desperation, I tweaked the tank fuel petcock to barely a drip, unable to adjust it to get it to idle, but was able to scoot around town for about five miles or so... up to about 25 miles per hour and even had no trouble with a moderate hill with a 36 tooth rear sprocket. That said I'm sure you can appreciate that I think running under those circumstances is a bit silly and this appearantly minor problem should be solvable.
Today, even though it appears to seal well I am going to replace the fuel bowl gasket and see if that will improve anything.
So, if anyone has any thoughts or advice regarding this maddening issue, I would be very interested in reading them. Maybe I'm missing something obviously silly so an objective opinion is warrented.... ?
Thanks in advance.
P.S. It's a sweet looking ride... Purple Dyno Moto Glide bobber. I'll post pics when I get this carb thing solved.
I do accept that I can sometimes miss something that may seam obvious to someone else and also that I am willing to listen and learn.
Here goes...
I have been into my carb, disassembled, cleaned, adjusted float, reassembled too many times to count and I cannot stop that darned thing from flooding. I have checked that the float floats, checked that the float shut-off actually shuts of the fuel flow into the carb bowl, I have adjusted the float tangs down as far as to be ridiculous and should just about prevent the carb from getting any fuel at all, I have eyeballed this thing, contemplated every possible flaw that I can think of but it continues to overflow the bowl and flood.
Yesterday, out of pure desperation, I tweaked the tank fuel petcock to barely a drip, unable to adjust it to get it to idle, but was able to scoot around town for about five miles or so... up to about 25 miles per hour and even had no trouble with a moderate hill with a 36 tooth rear sprocket. That said I'm sure you can appreciate that I think running under those circumstances is a bit silly and this appearantly minor problem should be solvable.
Today, even though it appears to seal well I am going to replace the fuel bowl gasket and see if that will improve anything.
So, if anyone has any thoughts or advice regarding this maddening issue, I would be very interested in reading them. Maybe I'm missing something obviously silly so an objective opinion is warrented.... ?
Thanks in advance.
P.S. It's a sweet looking ride... Purple Dyno Moto Glide bobber. I'll post pics when I get this carb thing solved.
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