Hi Guys.

Stumbled across something that confuses me. Whilst checking the float heights I realised that I do not have any means to adjust them. The floats at plastic and the needle seats into a cut out in the plastic. There is no tang which I can adjust.

My floats are riding much lower than the specified 17mm as recommended in the manual.

What do I do now?

I have attached a picture of the floats for clarity
LT

Wow, mine had a metal tang.  Can you add shims under the seat in the body that the needle goes against.  But finding washers that small may not be feasible.  Steve from SISF may have the answer as he works on carburetors all the time.   

Look again.
They all have a metal tang to bend.

Ted

Updte: My oops. Was unable to see photo previously.
           That float is not like the floats we have in our Connies?

Wow, mine had a metal tang.  Can you add shims under the seat in the body that the needle goes against.  But finding washers that small may not be feasible.  Steve from SISF may have the answer as he works on carburetors all the time.

Wtf???

Man, I don't know where you came up with that, but please, refrain from carb assistance from now on.

As for that photo, I have no clue as to what carbs that came from, but it isn't a Kehein CV carb from a Concours....

If it was in your bike, sombody severly hosed you up....

My Photobucket host site is messed up, as soon as its corrected I'll post a photo for you...

MOB, This might be a S. African version. You never know. It's a big world out there  

Anyway LT, that is surely not the floats from a regular C10. Our's are drum shaped. Do you have a pic of the whole carb?

MOB, This might be a S. African version. You never know. It's a big world out there  

Anyway LT, that is surely not the floats from a regular C10. Our's are drum shaped. Do you have a pic of the whole carb?

Gimme a break dude.....
Maybe in Poland things are different... but not THAT different....

It's really HOT and humid in S.A. So the floats need to be flatter. It's just principles fluid dynamics MOB.   

I am kidding.

Anyway, how is it different in Poland and why just Poland? I know the European versions look a little different but I thought the innards were the same.

They are, it was just a little polish humor on my part..

Still trying to get my photo host site...

Look again.
They all have a metal tang to bend.

Ted

Never seen floats like those on a Concours but my 1985 Honda Nighthawk S had similar plastic floats. No tang to bend:



Dan

Here are some pics of my carbs

Sorry. I duplicated one pic. Here is the other pic.

My photo host is down, but I just found a picture of one style of Conni floats, should look like this....




As for the carbs you pictured.... those are HONDA carbs... not Kaw issued or installed...

Dan is correct on his description, and as soon as I saw the chrome plated diaphragm covers it was clear...

LT, those are not our carbs.

Now, take a picture of your whole bike those carbs came from and post it for us.

I kinda said that in my post above....
Now its perfectly clear why his other post about carbs, has him looking for an airbox.... which will not fit for those carbs... and why the prior owner removed it, and replaced it with indifidual pod filters.....
It all is clear now....

Man,.what a mess he has to undo now.
Bummer

I know you said so. I just wanted to make sure there was no misunderstanding, so I repeated it just for his assurance 

My host 8s back up again, so I'll plop this picture up just for reference....

MOB, curious, do these floats ever crack, leak go bad after so many years in contact with gasoline?

I kinda said that in my post above....
Now its perfectly clear why his other post about carbs, has him looking for an airbox.... which will not fit for those carbs... and why the prior owner removed it, and replaced it with indifidual pod filters.....
It all is clear now....

Man,.what a mess he has to undo now.
Bummer

Wow  that is a mess and now it all makes sense. Now he needs the correct  carbs AND airbox.  I wonder what else has been Frankensteined on this bike.

Thanx for the response guys. I suppose the thing to do now is try and find someone who can do a swop out of the Honda carbs for kawasaki carbs. Here are some pictures of the bike. It's a 1988 GTR 1000

Bike looks to be in pretty good shape.
Best of luck.

Ride safe, Ted