Is there any way of Setting/Checking the Float Height with the Carbs ON the bike?
by Richard #230 The Downtime Files of the April issue of Motorcycle Consumer News has a really great tip for checking float level height without removing the carbs: Connect a piece of clear tubing to the float bowl drain tube, bend the tubing up against the outside of the float bowl and turn on the float bowl drain screws. The gas will rise in the tubing and you can take your measurement by observing the top of the level of the fuel in the tubing, as it will rise to the same level that is in the inside of the float bowls. The Classic has bowl drain taps on the bottom of the float bowls that you can hook up a plastic tube to. The only problem would be finding clear plastic tubing that will fit tightly over the drain nozzles. I think you could find this tubing in a pet fish store. If the tubing was a bit large, you could use wire wrapped around the tubing and twisted with pliers to compress it over the nozzles so that the fuel wouldn’t leak while you were checking the float level. The be
