Happy New Year everyone! I hope 2020 makes our XS dreams come true!
I had ordered a rebuild kit from cruzinimage for the carbs that came with my bike and thought I'd keep them for future use since I picked up the rebuilt carbs. However, over the holiday I believe to have found the problem with the overflow (flooding) of gas.
I tried to illustrate it above. If you turn the float valve body while keeping the needle in the same position it wasn't smooth and would get stuck, almost like it was sticky. (or turn the needle while inside the body) I felt that it was possible that the need would stick and as a result stay open.
Since I had the rebuilt kit, I decided to put it to use and changed the float valve assembly as well as the included jets.
Measured and adjusted the floats and reinstalled the carb set.
Initial start up was difficult and it was flooding out of both carbs but I placed two towels at the bottom of the air box and kept trying. The bike finally started and after it warmed up, I place the stock filters in and closed the box. I took it around the block and kept it running until hot did not flood. Previously, the right side carb would flood after the bike was hot.
Testing continues...