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Old 09-18-2020, 10:55 AM   #15
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Default Re: Carb leak

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Originally Posted by KGBnut View Post
With a good needle valve, properly adjusted float, and a good shut off valve you can still get a carb drip out of the air inlet. In my experience, it is almost always bad gaskets (fiber washer) on the Main Jet, or the Cap Jet. If that is the case, even with a good shut off valve, it will drip until the float bowl is empty.

I'd add the float valve gaskets to that suspect list, especially if you're using more than one to set the float height.
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