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jvandyke

jvandyke

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Should be 1/8" as in picture, not like the red area (as mine are now) I assume, even with Grose jets (can't see how would matter)? I should bend to get more clearance right where the hinge pin goes through? I might have 1/8" inch clearance at the center but the whole float is angled.

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You should be able to straighten the float on the arm with some careful bending.
...and see your other post for where to bend it to adjust the clearance.
 
Thanks, missed your other post or I wouldn't have started a new thread so quick, bad poster, bad! Sorry.
 
maybe those grose jets throw things off? Do they sit higher (actually lower, longer, sticking into the float chamber more) than OEM? If I watch the ball in the jet, holding assembly vertical, the ball starts to get compressed when the float is WAY further out than 1/8", closer to a 1/2". In operation that means much lower float level. Maybe this is why the PO ditched the SUs so many years ago? Looks like the step in the arm between float and pivot point should be taken out, wonder if that would move the float to far off center in the bowl. Hate to mod it so much and then decide to ditch the grose jets, after the floats are past the point of no return. I have to imagine this has been addressed many many times in the last 40 odd years.

PS I do have some sort of washer under the jet, removing that and turning the jet in some more would help.
This is one reference
 
Welllll... my personal opinion of Gross(e) Jets is my own... I think they're ~almost~ good WristRocket ammo. Not good for much else. A set of Viton tipped replacements would be MY suggestion before you go tweakin' the float arms.
 
Yeah, I know, many hate those things, many swear by them, many swear at them, but they're there so before I go replacing EVERY part I thought I'd start out replacing as little as I could and see what's what.

I took the "washer" out from under the jet. When held vertical it's set such that the float (bracket) is 1/8" away from the housing right as it contacts the ball in the grose jet. But set like that, my float is still angled quite a bit, wondering now if that's okay.
Here's a picture. I should say it reaches 1/8" just as the grose jet closes off the flow (of air from my mouth). Maybe I'm beating this to death needlessly.
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I'd say you're good to go. Slap 'em together and bolt 'em up. :wink:
 
Leading edge? Sorry to be so ignorant.
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tempting to put in a drain petlock, so you can attach a tube to it, hold it along side the chamber, open the valve and see exactly where the level is as it's operating (like motorcycle carbs). Wonder if there is a measurement relative to the float chamber of proper fuel level. Test it on the bench.
 
leading edge of float
 
Like Doc says, you are good to go. Bolt it up and take a ride.
 
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