carbs

[Gavin_Sons]

Has anyone changed a float and float needle with the carbs still on the bike? I know i have heard of some replacing jets with them still on. I would think you would have to pull the float to get to the jets. It's been a couple years since i have had mine off and opened up.

[old2soon]

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[SCain]

The jets are easily removed without taking out the floats, if you are just changing jets I wouldn't remove the floats.
But if you are that far into the carb already, might be a good idea to remove the float and inspect the float needle, I guess it would depend on why you opened them up in the first place.

[Gavin_Sons]

The jets are easily removed without taking out the floats, if you are just changing jets I wouldn't remove the floats.
But if you are that far into the carb already, might be a good idea to remove the float and inspect the float needle, I guess it would depend on why you opened them up in the first place.

it hydrolocked on the #2 cylinder so i'm replacing the float and needle on that carb. i just didn't want to pull the carbs if it can be done without removing them.

[Gavin_Sons]

Turns out you can replace float and float needle with them in place.  did it last night over a couple hours and a beer or 3. Now I have back firing on that side and smells really rich. Going to turn my mixture screws in to 1 3/4 and resync today. My pipes are really open so I dont think turning the screws in by 1/2 a turn will hurt