Recent content by 91octane

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Flogger, how many miles are on your bike?

Sorry about that I saw wright up about bypassing the air cut off valves and he was calling them pilot jets.

thanks again amc, your a big asset to this site.

thanks amc, im just trying to figure if i need new floats or if it was leaking past because i submersed them in hot water causing the air inside the float to expand and find a way out. here is a pic of the coil. it very well could be the valve guides thats next anyway but i thought it was odd...

all we got was a bunch of rain as you can see in the pic of my garage floor. the PO of my bike had tinkered with the carbs himself. the bowl overflow tubes all had cracks in them and his answer was to put a piece of tygon fuel line over them to seal them up. that probably worked for a year or...

will submersing the floats in hot water force a leak that wont normally be there?

thanks amc, i dont know the history of the bike but with living in iowa they try and put ethanol in every grade of fuel. they dont have to mark it as containing ethanol until it reaches 10%. my floats are all plastic and it looks like its a very fine crack at the bottom of the float. guess ill...

Wow you got a steal. My 80 cost 100 more and is not near as nice. But I'm planning sort of a rat rod/Enduro version with mine. Nice pick though!

hey everyone, new member here. just wondering how common it is to have holes in floats? bought a 1980 cb750k and im getting around to rebuilding the carburetors and found that all four floats have pin holes in them. I suppose i could have screwed them up by throwing them into hot water. I have a...