Re: Leaking float bowls, engine will not stay running
Where are they leaking fuel to? If it is leaking into the carb throat, then it all adds up. Your motor is flooding. Once the gas clears, it starts again, runs for a bit, then floods again. If instead it is leaking out the side of the carbs and not into the carb throat, then there could be something that requires a little physics and other voodoo magic to figure out, such as this...
possibly the leaking carbs allow air into the bowls which allows the motor to freely suck more fuel from the carb than it should.
Whether it's as simple as the carb bowl leaking fuel into the carb throat, or something more complex like a pressure differential sucking fuel into the carb throat, I think either way that it is related to their being excess fuel reaching the plugs and flooding the motor.
When it doesn't start, troubleshoot flooding by doing the following...
Method One: let the motor sit for a while (sometimes an hour, sometimes a day) then restart. If it starts after sitting, it's because the gas has evaporated away.
Method Two: Start the motor with the throttle open (in neutral of course). This allows excess air to offset the excess fuel.
By the way, if you have a very rich mixture, as I expect, priming it is not helping the situation.
