float height

[prpldude]

I have an '80 GS850GLT and have cleaned the carbs in the dip for 24 hours or more. Blew out everything with compressed air and poked out most of the holes and made sure I could see light through the others.
I'm assembling the carbs and am a little confused of how and where to measure the floats. I have seen them measured both at the flat spot and at the lowest part of the float. I know it needs to be 23-25mm. part of my confusion is that my floats are 20-21mm at the highest part of the float. Also do I bend the "tab" in the middle of the float hinge to adjust the height?

Thanks for the help in advance

[niclpnut]

and yep, bent the tab in the middle to adjust height, and after, measure both the left and right sides of the float, as you could have bent one slightly down as you were trying to bend the tab.

Nic

[prpldude]

Thanks for the quick reply and awesome picture. That is the best picture I have seen of where to measure.

[niclpnut]

Thanks goes to Basscliff's website.

That pic and others of float height measurement can be found here:

http://members.dslextreme.com/users/bikecliff/images/carbspec_float_height.html#A02

If you haven't already, check out the Very informative and valuable site in its entirety:

http://members.dslextreme.com/users/bikecliff/

Regards,

Nic

[Steve]

I have an '80 GS850GLT and have cleaned the carbs in the dip for 24 hours or more. Blew out everything with compressed air and poked out most of the holes and made sure I could see light through the others.

If you took the time and effort to poke out "most" of the holes, why didn't you do the rest of them?

The ones you missed might be the important ones.

I know it needs to be 23-25mm. part of my confusion is that my floats are 20-21mm at the highest part of the float.

OK, you have seen the picture for where to measure, now get the right dimension.

You should be setting them to 22.4 +/-1.0 mm, not 23-25 mm.

Thanks for the quick reply and awesome picture. That is the best picture I have seen of where to measure.

Thanks. Those are my grubby fingers in the picture.

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[prpldude]

Ohh when I said most.. I meant the ones I didn't I could see through.. the bigger openings. I cleared all the little ones and the ones I couldn't see through.

For the float height I went off of the manual. page 139 or 9-9 in the PDF. I forgot to go back to the instructions off of Basscliff's site. I'll take off the bowls and double check.

Thanks again everyone!!!

[Steve]

Ohh when I said most.. I meant the ones I didn't I could see through.. the bigger openings.

Just because you can see light through a hole does not mean it's not partially clogged.

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[prpldude]

I gotcha
I'll take them back apart this weekend and run the wire through all the holes.. Thanks for the scolding