davem222
davem222
Hey guys,
Thought I had made a mistake, I had set my 79 bs38s with a float height from the lip of the carb body that overlaps onto the float bowl. I soon realized that the carb manual on here says it should be 24mm +/- 1mm from the surface that the gasket sits on. Sweet, so since that surface is 3mm below the top of the lip (from where I was setting it) I actually had it set to 27mm. I had some trouble getting my calipers down to the gasket surface, so I simply did it from the lip but only 21mm. Simple math, 21mm from floats to lip + 3mm to gasket surface = 24mm. Hooray! Checked both sides of each, bolted it on, turned on the petcocks: WOOSH, gas everywhere, coming out of the air filters, etc. Anyone have any clue what I'm doing wrong here? Could my floats be deformed? Do I not set it from the gasket surface?
Dave
Thought I had made a mistake, I had set my 79 bs38s with a float height from the lip of the carb body that overlaps onto the float bowl. I soon realized that the carb manual on here says it should be 24mm +/- 1mm from the surface that the gasket sits on. Sweet, so since that surface is 3mm below the top of the lip (from where I was setting it) I actually had it set to 27mm. I had some trouble getting my calipers down to the gasket surface, so I simply did it from the lip but only 21mm. Simple math, 21mm from floats to lip + 3mm to gasket surface = 24mm. Hooray! Checked both sides of each, bolted it on, turned on the petcocks: WOOSH, gas everywhere, coming out of the air filters, etc. Anyone have any clue what I'm doing wrong here? Could my floats be deformed? Do I not set it from the gasket surface?
Dave