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can someone help me set the float correctly on a 2000 XR200R?
symptoms:
-bike leaks a drip of gas every 3-5 mins or so, making a damp puddle every morning
-float must be improperly adjusted, right?
wrong...I changed the float height on the tang, and now the bike won't run without the choke...and somewhere in the middle I lost the small plastic circular seat, from the carb, I lost the other 2nd nut that secures it onto the cylinder...and after pulling the carb 3 times to adjust the tang, I forgot to put on the fuel line, turned on the gas, and spilled it all over the garage floor...then while rolling the bike past the car, the fork scraped against the plastic and left a nice long scratch in the bumper...FML
and after inspecting the carb more closely, I realized the leak was from the float bowl drain plug being loose, not the float being improperly set
so the factory spec is 12.5mm, +/- 0.5mm, but measuring that height to the bottom of the float (from the gasket surface) is clearly impossible because the floats just can't go that far up into the carbs
any advice?