Topica Loopframe_Guzzi Archive


Subject: Re: An oddity

Author: Patrick Hayes

Date: Apr 19, 2001, 8:28 AM

Post ID: 1706380457


In a message dated 04/19/2001 8:24:43 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
haw-@frontiernet.net writes:

<< Also, recently checked, with bowl off to see if float needle was
shutting gas off and in fact it was. >>

Huh? Can't do that. Just because you lift the float by hand and it closes
the fuel flow doesn't mean it is correct. You need to know that the fuel is
stopped when the float is at its resting fluid position in the bowl. You
need to MEASURE the float level versus the carb body. Has to be off the bike
and held upside down for the measurement.

Any chance you have a bad float with a little leak so that it sinks a little
as it warms up?

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA
EV, EV, SPII, V-65-C, Monza, SuperAlce
MGNOC L-403

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