carb take 2

Yeah - so I am a little behind on the blogs. Had a hellish week at work followed by a heavenly vacation. Back to the real world now, which means not nearly as much time to read smutty books. Which by the way, Nalini Singh is my top paranormal romance author right now. Hot stuff - the covers, however, make me hang my head and blush like a fire-engine when I go up to the counter to buy them (sometimes you just cant wait on the mail!). Hostage to Pleasure - yes please!

Besides being well read - I finished my carb before I left for the beautiful South. The ultrasonic cleaning did wonders for the jets. The slow jet was completely clogged, and it looks nice and clear when held to the light.

I was already to plop everything back where it belongs and measure the float height and call it a day when I realized one of the float balls was wicked lower than the other. Hubby assures me this is ... natural. But I have trouble accepting anything less than the best from Lizzy. Look at how much it is torqued! I think this was done when someone tried to adjust the float tang previously. Shame on you!

I lovingly bent it back to where it should be. Now that's better.

Lastly I spent a shameful amount of time adjusting the float height. It took me a long time to realize that the tiny little nub you see touching the tang is springy! Who knew? You want to set the height when the two are just touching and you are not depressing the spring. Lots of bending and rechecking height, all the while making sure I didn't torque the floats out of whack again.
I was a little unsure of how much to put in the air set screw and the idle adjust screw, so I just did the former flush with the carb body and the other somewhere in the mid range of its travel. I put the float bowl on and called it done. The carb looked great! Then on the bike it went.