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Originally Posted by Will N
Am I understanding correctly that the float valves that the vendors sell today, which are one piece, are not the original style that was used in the zenith carbs? We're the originals a separate seat and needle?
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Most one-piece units are modern Grose-Jet valves.
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Originally Posted by darrylkmc
Brent,
Photos of the Float Valve and upper Carburetor half would be helpful for the rest of us to your visualize your delima.
Darryl in Fairbanks
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Darryl, I don't really have pictures and the issue is solved now but as mentioned above, the seat of the float valve had slots installed during manufacturing to install/remove that particular style of seat. Somewhere along the way, one of the slots was damaged where a screwdriver could not effectively remove it when twisting the screwdriver.
For the sake of illustration, let's suppose the center portion of the seat had a 0.250" round bore where the needle would reside. If I would have had a screwdriver that had a 0.249" round pilot in the center of the tip, this would have indexed into the center of the brass valve allowing the twisting forces to be directly from/over the vertical centerline. This likely would have allowed just one end of the screwdriver tip to twist the seat out of the carburetor top. That first picture I posted shows what that type of tool would have looked like. I chose an alternate method and we got the seat out by using a left-handed end mill that loosened it.