Sure is. I used quik steel to cement a screw in tubing. Thanks, though!
On another note, I tightened my TEV cover the other day (it was loose and seeping gas) and tried to start again. It ran for a few seconds before dying (forgot to turn the petcock on!) I flipped the petcock switch and tried to fire her up again. No start, just gas vomiting out of the drain tubes! My air filter had gas on it and a significant amount of fuel had run out of the tubes before I shut the petcock off again. I suppose this means I have a major blockage in my carb, correct?

Single_Spark wrote on 06/07/13 at 10:56:17:


Do you mean the two carb vent lines?  When dealing with machinery, the proper vocab is critical.....

Not the vent lines from the carb.

I had a suspicion the float valve might be stuck. I've knocked on the bowl plenty with no change. Is cleaning the carb thoroughly a good first step, or should I go the replacement route? I have to put in an order for the air screw anyway.

Dyna is the only major modification? Let's see, you're only a couple hundred feet, tops, above sea level... so the stock jetting is going to be some kind of lean already (guessing at the elevation, but I know the river is low enough to be affected by the ocean's tides even that far up stream, used to go to Sauvie Island a lot). And Portland gets the same low grade garbage gas as Seattle (tends to have water and sediment in it).

If your T.E.V. cover was leaking, check the valve itself for cracks/pinholes, same with the slide diaphragm. Modern fuel does some not so friendly things to the synthetic rubber used in them.

Sat up for 4 years? Have you gutted and dipped the carb yet? If not, you need to do so, any money and time thrown at a gummed up carb is a waste of both. Pull everything you can out of the main casting, go to NAPA or such and get a bucket of carb dip, soak the carb body for a couple days and then flush it with spray can carb or electrical cleaner until every small passage will cleanly flow.

WEll,, Dont be excited when ya start handling that air mix screw,,

Single_Spark wrote on 06/23/13 at 18:08:37:


Not normal.

I've had some more problems. It seems my clutch cable has stretched because no matter how I set it, the clutch lever doesn't return to its original position when I let go. Anyone have a reference t the correct length for this cable? I couldn't find it through searching, and I'm thinking about getting the DIY cable kit.

Also, my carb started shooting out gas through the vent Ports again. After I had dipped the carb, I tested my float valve by keeping the bowl off and hooking the carb to the gas tank. I manually adjusted the float height and it shut off as it should. The valve itself, though, seems to have a little play in the pin height. It's slack through about 25% of it's traveling length, then there's resistance. I'm assuming that's not normal.