BTW, on the fuel rail orings - you need to do those, but it's not easily done. they are what, 28 years old, and could well be where the leak is coming from. When they leak / seep, the fuel runs off the bowls so it seems like a bowl leak, but it's not. I'm at a point that when guys send me carbs from about 97 to 98 back, I suggest oring replacement as a matter of course. Early on, I didn't have this opinion, but when you rebuild old carbs and then they start leaking a couple months later, folks don't have much of a sense of humor about that
. The real problem with doing that job is you're going to need an impact driver to loosen the rail screws. If you can't impact them to get the loose, you'll strip the heads.
Also, on prying the carbs out, be careful there - I've seen a couple sets that were pried on, and the carb bodies were busted at the inlet where the tool was levered.
Let me add on more point - some folks might read what I'm posting and think "yeah, he's just trying to get work". others might read it and see I'm putting valuable info in my posts. Let me respond this way - If I can do carbs, anyone can - but I probably did 50 sets or more before I hung out my shingle, and since then I've seen some stuff I couldn't have even imagined, and it was all created by guys trying to "save money". At this point I've done over 400 sets, and my takeaway is that not all of us see things or understand things the same, so when one guy says "it's easy" well, it may have been for him, but for the next guy, not so much. Steve