Re: gas leaking from nipple on bottom of carb

Posted by shinyribs on Oct 06, 2012; 3:57am
URL: http://vintage-and-classic-hondas.81.s1.nabble.com/gas-leaking-from-nipple-on-bottom-of-carb-tp4030391p4030403.html

Most likely a float is too high or float needle is bad. If the float needle has a groove wore around the edge it might not ever seal right again. It doesn't take much of a groove at all for them to leak.

If your bike has the metal tipped ones they are hard to locate new individually. Actually,I never could find them at all. If you buy the rubber tipped ones you have to buy the seats that match them,and that gets expensive. Like $15 per carb expensive.

If you do have the metal tipped ones you can buy new float needles for an '81 Suzuki GS 750 from z1enterprises.com . They are just a teeny tiny hair longer than the Honda needles but they work. And they are muuuuuch cheaper than converting to the rubber tipped ones. $20 for the set of 4

Remember,it took 40 years for the metal ones to go bad!