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    Help me with float height adjustment

    For a month ago i did a really good carb cleaning,And i also adjusted the float heights with a vernier caliper to the specs i the manual (22.4+-1.0mm),Since then the bike will not run good at high speed range.Feeling that the bike dont get enough fuel.Today i borrowed a adapter with a plastic tube, connected it to the the float bowls screw.Now it seems that the level is 4-6 mm under the spec in the manual that say: Fuel level 5.0+-1.0mm. I now wonder: If my carburetors are upside down and the bowls removed,Witch way should i bend the tounge of the float to get a higher fuel level???

    #2
    Bend the tang towards the float needle
    1983 GS 1100E w/ 1230 kit, .340 lift Web Cams, Ape heavy duty valve springs, 83 1100 head with 1.5mm oversized SS intake valves, 1150 crank, Vance and Hines 1150 SuperHub, Star Racing high volume oil pump gears, 36mm carebs Dynojet stage 3 jet kit, Posplayr's SSPB, Progressive rear shocks and fork springs, Dyna 2000, Dynatek green coils and Vance & Hines 4-1 exhaust.
    1985 GS1150ES stock with 85 Red E bodywork.

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      #3
      Check the carb series to properly set the floats

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        #4
        Originally posted by chef1366 View Post
        Bend the tang towards the float needle
        Far be it for me to question a site superstar, but; If you bend the tang down towards the float needle, that increases the float height, but doesn't that decrease the amount of fuel allowed in the bowl? I am pretty sure for my carbs bending the needle down decreases the fuel but bending it up increases the fuel.

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          #5
          Originally posted by ryonker View Post
          Far be it for me to question a site superstar, but; If you bend the tang down towards the float needle, that increases the float height, but doesn't that decrease the amount of fuel allowed in the bowl? I am pretty sure for my carbs bending the needle down decreases the fuel but bending it up increases the fuel.

          ohhhh BUUUUURRRRRRRRNNNN!! hehehehehe just razzin ya Bill. Its easy, if you're just thinking about it, to get it backwards, because you have to think backwards to begin with, then invert it, then think backwards again.. so its then forwards...

          One step forward... two steps back...we come together cause

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            #6
            Brain fart. I'm wrong.
            I didn't put that superstar bit on my title.
            I'm no superstar, that's for sure.
            1983 GS 1100E w/ 1230 kit, .340 lift Web Cams, Ape heavy duty valve springs, 83 1100 head with 1.5mm oversized SS intake valves, 1150 crank, Vance and Hines 1150 SuperHub, Star Racing high volume oil pump gears, 36mm carebs Dynojet stage 3 jet kit, Posplayr's SSPB, Progressive rear shocks and fork springs, Dyna 2000, Dynatek green coils and Vance & Hines 4-1 exhaust.
            1985 GS1150ES stock with 85 Red E bodywork.

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              #7
              Originally posted by chef1366 View Post
              Brain fart. I'm wrong.
              I didn't put that superstar bit on my title.
              I'm no superstar, that's for sure.
              Awwwww We all think you are a Superstar buddy

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                #8
                Originally posted by chef1366 View Post
                Brain fart. I'm wrong.
                I didn't put that superstar bit on my title.
                I'm no superstar, that's for sure.
                It just makes you more real. You are a superstar to me!

                Rick

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                  #9
                  To get Fuel level 5.0+-1.0mm,My floats now are between 20,2mm-20,8mm. 22,4 like the manual says are long gone for my carbs???

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                    #10
                    Bill,
                    It's official..You ARE elevated to SuperStar status. But,.. you are human too, so lead on..carefully....
                    1980 Suzuki GS550E, 1981 Suzuki GS 1100EX all stock, 1983 Suzuki GS 1100EX modified, 1985 GS1150E, 1998 Honda Valkyrie Tourer, 1971 Kawasaki Mach lll 500 H1, 1973 Kawasaki Mach lV 750 H2.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by headsbikesmopars View Post
                      Bill,
                      It's official..You ARE elevated to SuperStar status. But,.. you are human too, so lead on..carefully....
                      Thanks Terry!

                      Originally posted by Tompasio View Post
                      To get Fuel level 5.0+-1.0mm,My floats now are between 20,2mm-20,8mm. 22,4 like the manual says are long gone for my carbs???
                      The springs in the float needles may be worn out.
                      1983 GS 1100E w/ 1230 kit, .340 lift Web Cams, Ape heavy duty valve springs, 83 1100 head with 1.5mm oversized SS intake valves, 1150 crank, Vance and Hines 1150 SuperHub, Star Racing high volume oil pump gears, 36mm carebs Dynojet stage 3 jet kit, Posplayr's SSPB, Progressive rear shocks and fork springs, Dyna 2000, Dynatek green coils and Vance & Hines 4-1 exhaust.
                      1985 GS1150ES stock with 85 Red E bodywork.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by chef1366 View Post
                        I didn't put that superstar bit on my title.
                        I'm no superstar, that's for sure.
                        to give a little special recognition to those folks who hang out here and go above and beyond, in terms of helping others here.
                        It seems we differ... and it looks like, to me, that you are...

                        set your fuel levels with something like this item.
                        Last edited by rustybronco; 08-25-2009, 04:21 PM.
                        De-stinking Penelope http://thegsresources.com/_forum/sho...d.php?t=179245

                        http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum...35#post1625535

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by rustybronco View Post
                          It seems we differ... and it looks like, to me, that you are...

                          set your fuel levels with something like this item.
                          http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...ayphotohosting
                          Thanks Dale.
                          I need to post a pic of that great Kerker oil cooler. I love it!
                          1983 GS 1100E w/ 1230 kit, .340 lift Web Cams, Ape heavy duty valve springs, 83 1100 head with 1.5mm oversized SS intake valves, 1150 crank, Vance and Hines 1150 SuperHub, Star Racing high volume oil pump gears, 36mm carebs Dynojet stage 3 jet kit, Posplayr's SSPB, Progressive rear shocks and fork springs, Dyna 2000, Dynatek green coils and Vance & Hines 4-1 exhaust.
                          1985 GS1150ES stock with 85 Red E bodywork.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by chef1366 View Post
                            Thanks Dale.
                            I need to post a pic of that great Kerker oil cooler. I love it!
                            Post it up!

                            how did the chrome clean up? are you using the thermostat with it?
                            De-stinking Penelope http://thegsresources.com/_forum/sho...d.php?t=179245

                            http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum...35#post1625535

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                              #15
                              Yes Rustybronco

                              I used just an item like that, when i measured the float heights

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