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savagerider87 Full Member Offline Riding a quality Japanese machine since '13 Posts: 224 Northern NY Gender:	Stuck carb needle? 04/09/14 at 09:26:52 My bike is pouring gas out of the carb vent tubes. Tried to start it yesterday and it was flooded... Is the needle the culprit? (I have gutted the stock petcock.)
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curmudgeon YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 23	Re: Stuck carb needle? Reply #1 - 04/09/14 at 09:57:43 I had that exact thing happen to me, and it was a stuck needle. I've heard where others were able to get it to function correctly again by tapping on the carb body or bowl, but that didn't work for me. I did a teardown and re-seated the needle. Problem solved.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28886 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Stuck carb needle? Reply #2 - 04/09/14 at 09:59:33 You replaced it with a raptor or could you be more specific? You either have a stuck float or a bad float valve (sometimes referred to as a needle... but not really) give the carb bowl a rap with a plastic handled screwdriver for immediate rectification, or you may need to go in there and find out what it is.
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Re: Stuck carb needle?
Reply #3 - 04/09/14 at 10:10:44

verslagen1 wrote on 04/09/14 at 09:59:33:

You replaced it with a raptor or could you be more specific?

You either have a stuck float or a bad float valve (sometimes referred to as a needle... but not really)

give the carb bowl a rap with a plastic handled screwdriver for immediate rectification, or you may need to go in there and find out what it is.

Versy, it has the stock petcock, I had a leak in the vacuum port (leaking fuel into the vac port) last summer I blocked the vac port and removed the diaphragm. I replaced it with a piece of plastic so it wouldn't leak, rode the rest of the summer that way with no issues. What's the part# for the raptor?

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Re: Stuck carb needle?
Reply #4 - 04/09/14 at 10:25:26

savagerider87 wrote on 04/09/14 at 10:10:44:

Versy, it has the stock petcock, I had a leak in the vacuum port (leaking fuel into the vac port) last summer I blocked the vac port and removed the diaphragm. I replaced it with a piece of plastic so it wouldn't leak, rode the rest of the summer that way with no issues. What's the part# for the raptor?

it's in the tech section and there's links in the newb primers in the stickies.

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