T Mack, you thought you were scratching your head you should see the Yamaha mechanic right now. Says he never saw a spring in there and have never seen one below the clip! He's havin a real hard time understanding this white spacer mod, which is probably why he never followed through with it!!! lol

He did give me a few washers, OD a lil less then the ones from Lancers kit will that be ok??

He also gave me a spring from a mikuni kit, it does look to be about the same size as the one in Jims pic maybe just a lil closer to the needle but still slides smooth!

When you put it back together, use stainless steel butthead allens for the top four screws and regular stainless allens for the float bowl. this not only makes it easier to work on in the future, (since it eliminates the dreaded rounded out phillips head syndrome), the stainless screws will not grow roots in the aluminum the way the standard cadium plated ones do.
BTW the way, I remove rounded out phillips is to use a small good quality vise grip to break it loose.

Aliassmith

Airbox is gone!! Battery box getting moved back. Easiest and cleanest way to tidy up wiring??