On 3/19/2023 6:55 PM, Rick Begeman wrote:
On 3/19/23 1:16 PM, Snag wrote:
My carb has a case of the dribbles . New needle , correct float
level - actually a tiny bit low . The carb has been cleaned , had a
petcock screen rust away and gunk stuff up . I bought a kit , but
found that nothing fits but the float needle . I suspect the needle
seat is a bit corroded or rough , and it ain't replaceable . Saw in a
Harley forum that it can be lapped to clean it up and wondered what to
use . I'm thinking simple first , a small disk of scotchbrite pad on
the end of a Phillips screwdriver . Or I can make a machined lap and
use either valve grinding or diamond lapping compound , got both .
Maybe just a dowel faced flat and loaded with lapping compound .
It looks OK , but it's down in a small hole and hard to really tell
what kind of shape it's in .
Fresh bottle of Ezra 99 on the bar ... shots or mixed as you like it .
I'm of the opinion that it has not been vibrated enough.
Seems to me that with vibration it would lap itself.
I guess you could say its self lapping.
But everyone has an opinion.
Dribbling while its running or when parked?
A pressurized fuel tank can do bad things too.
It's not dribbling while running , but you can tell the float level
seems to be high . There's fuel coming up around the accel pump stem and
out of the air bleed . I'm going to pull the carb in the morning and try
to get a look at the needle seat under magnification . I'll probably do
some kind of cleanup on that seat while it's disassembled . Can't hurt .
--
Snag
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but you can't make him think."
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