We're gonna start by uh pulling the float bowl off here now the many carbies that i've done over the years these screws are um oh they can be a little bit tricky so make sure you either use a lot of force and a set of vice grips or something or you know sort of know what you're doing because they strip so so easily so make sure you've got a lot of pressure on it as you're starting to pull them swm motorcycles here because as i said they strip apart very easily now this whole thing's going to have fuel in it so as we start to pull it apart we're going to let it drain off into a into a tub so that we don't get uh fuel over our workbench here as with anything.

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I treat things a lot like lego you know put things where they should go um read the manual and look at things over and just put it apart pull it apart and put it back together just like you would uh you know a quality bit of lego kit so we're going to do the same here we're going to pull it apart lay it all down nicely and so we know where bits and pieces go all right with most of the fuel out of the bowl here you can see as i pull off the bowl you've got looks to be a pretty clean bowl there's not a whole lot of junk down the bottom what you'll get in old bikes and old moles and stuff like that is a whole bunch of sediment and junk and whatever down the bottom here that's looking nice and clean so that's a that's a good start definitely a good start all right now inside the carving here this is the float so what the float does is when the carve is sitting up like this up the right way it lets fuel down into the bowl into here.

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It comes up the fuel level comes up it touches that float and the float actually floats does what it does and it starts to push up on the float and the float is connected to a needle and seat down here which stops the flow of fuel so once it's got enough fuel sitting in the bowl here um it's it stops the fuel from coming in so we'll pull this apart and we'll have a look at the needle and seat because that could be our problem there something you definitely want to clean anyway regardless as we pull this off there we go the there's the float and there's the needle that just dropped out now the needle sits in there uh into this part here is called the seat so electric trial bike the needle and that's the seat and when you're inspecting what you want to look at is uh the tip of the needle there has you know kind of a point if it's a rounded point