Yes.
1.Remove the Float Bowl, (Turn gas off first), and clean the crud out of the bowl. (Bottom of the carburetor)
There is a brass nut in the middle of the float bowl, which is on the bottom of the carburetor.
There is a fiber, or brass washer on that bolt. DON'T lose it! (Turn it to the left)
The brass bolt, (Main Jet Plug), goes through the float bowl, and into the Main Jet.
Remove the float, (Carefully! If it's a plastic designed float, Don't nick it with your fingernail/s. Also make sure it isn't soaking up gas. If so, {You'll know!}, replace it)
A.DON'T let the float needle valve fall out, when you remove the float! The Float Needle is attached to the float, with a small 'hair spring' clip.
B.DON'T lose the tiny, 'hair spring' clip, that attaches the float needle to the float.
Observe VERY carefully how this tiny spring clip goes on the float, ->Before you remove the float pin. (The float rotates up, and down, on this long round pin) It has to be put back the same exact way)
Handle the float with extreme care. It is set to a certain height. The measurement goes from the bottom of the carburetor body, (Where the side of the float bowl touches), to the top edge of the float.
The top of the Float Needle has a groove cut around it. That 'Hair Spring' clip I described above, clips in this groove. The other end of this 'Hair Clip', goes around a flat area that extends out of the side of the float.
Once you get the float bowl down a bit, you'll see what I'm referring to above.
C.The Float Needle Valve is made of metal, and has a Neoprene, (Like rubber), tip on the end. The Neoprene tip is cone shaped. A light little ring mark on the Neoprene tip is okay.
If the tip is broken, or mushed out, the Float Needle Valve is no good.
More than likely you just have crud in the float bowl, and it is also down in the Float Needle Valve Seat.
(The Float Needle Seat is a brass cylindrical shaped piece. It has a tapered hole inside, down at the bottom. Fuel, {Gas} comes through this tapered hole, and the Float Needle Valve regulates how much. The float raises, which raises the float needle valve. Fuel comes through the tapered hole. The float drops, which lowers the float needle valve, and stops fuel from coming through the tapered hole, and into the float bowl)
After time, the bottom of your gas tank develops rust, from moisture in the gasoline.
Dirt also finds it's way into a bike's gas tank. Also the additives in gasoline accumulate after a while.
If you do not have an inline fuel filter, I advise you buy, and install one. This way you change the fuel filter element, and do not have to tear the carb/s down again.
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