What kinda carbs? On Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 9:12 AM kiwinPA <[email protected]> wrote:
> I completely rebuilt the twin carbs on a 1993 Kawasaki EN500 Vulcan. These > are great little parallel twins with plenty of power. I replaced the Orings > in the tubes between the carbs that were causing the leaks. With the carbs > back on the bike I have spent the last two days trying to stop them from > leaking still. I have adjusted the float levels. The leak is not coming > from the float valve but I can see through the air box that it is coming > out the back of the carb directly into the air box. Even with the float > levels way below where they should be the carbs still leak. I can only > surmise I did something wrong in putting the carbs back together. How can > gas be overflowing into the air box when the level in the carb bowl stays > below the level of the carb airbox throat? I have checked the float valves > with the carb bowls removed. No leaking there. I can activate the floats > manually and see when the gas stops flowing into the carbs. How else can > the carbs be filling up with gas? People?? Graham > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
