(Sorry this is so long) I can't get my 3 carbs (WME 59's) to stop flooding fuel out of the small brass tubes in the rear of the throttle body. I have rebuilt the carbs, new kits, floats, needles, gasks, etc., and also new reeds. I adjusted the float level 5 times starting a 7/16" and then higher; the needles stop the air when blown into fuel line upside down, and then rightside up lightly lifting the float.
Using water for testing (didn't want to deal with gas). These were the testing steps I did:
-I filled the bowl through the fuel line and water comes out the small brass tube, the float wouldn't stop it.
-I lowered the top half of the carb with the float attached while filling the fuel line with water, into a pan of water until the float raised up and shut off the water coming into the fuel line (the bottom edge of the upper half was 1/4" above the waterline when the float shut off the flow.
-I submerged the bowl manually into the pan of water to fill it and screwed the carb on top of the bowl keeping it all level, I finished filling the fuel line and the float shut off the flow.
When the bowl is attached and it's filling through the fuel line by gravity (not pressured), as the fuel raises it's being forced out the overflow before the float is able to shut it off; possibly there's no breather hole to allow the fuel to raise up to fill the bowl so it comes out the overflow? Maybe the notched gasket on the tube that houses the long main jet tube is allowing the fuel to be pushed up and out of the overflow? Did I they send the wrong carb kit?
Thank you, Tom
Using water for testing (didn't want to deal with gas). These were the testing steps I did:
-I filled the bowl through the fuel line and water comes out the small brass tube, the float wouldn't stop it.
-I lowered the top half of the carb with the float attached while filling the fuel line with water, into a pan of water until the float raised up and shut off the water coming into the fuel line (the bottom edge of the upper half was 1/4" above the waterline when the float shut off the flow.
-I submerged the bowl manually into the pan of water to fill it and screwed the carb on top of the bowl keeping it all level, I finished filling the fuel line and the float shut off the flow.
When the bowl is attached and it's filling through the fuel line by gravity (not pressured), as the fuel raises it's being forced out the overflow before the float is able to shut it off; possibly there's no breather hole to allow the fuel to raise up to fill the bowl so it comes out the overflow? Maybe the notched gasket on the tube that houses the long main jet tube is allowing the fuel to be pushed up and out of the overflow? Did I they send the wrong carb kit?
Thank you, Tom