1983 gs550l carb fuel leak / float adjustments

[pnutt]

Hello all,
I have acquired another project bike from a person who did not appreciate what they had. I traded for a 1983 gs 550l and have started to put the poor girl back together. I rebuilt the carbs and replaced the float valves on both carbs. but i have no experience adjusting the float heights for motorcycles. I attempted to adjust them with no success. it seams to be always to much or not enough with this carb. i eather get to much fuel flow or none at all with minor adjustments. the fuel is filling up the bowls and flowing out the airbox side of the carbs from 4 holes that have little jets in them. so my question would be is there a proven method to adjust the floats, how to, and should i pull the carbs back apart and dip them? some of the bearings on the carb are corroded and are not cleaning up like i think they should.
any help will be appreciated!

thanks for reading!

[Steve]

First of all, Welcome to GSR.

Next, do you have any reference material to show you what your float measurements should be?
The information that I have says they should be set to 20.5, +/-1.0mm.

Now, you need to know how to set them? Go to BassCliff's 'little' site, you can download a copy of the factory manual.
Bookmark that site, it is basically the full library of our collective knowledge of all things GS.

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[BassCliff]

Greetings and Salutations!!

Hi Mr. pnutt,

Let's start here:>>> New Members, CLICK HERE!!

The "mega-welcome" will have a couple of lists of maintenance items. Most thirty year old motorcycles need about twenty years worth of maintenance. Go through the lists and take no shortcuts.

Have a look here to get an idea about how to adjust float height:>>> Float Height Illustrations. Yes, it can be finicky but make minor adjustments until you get them just right.


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff