MOPED ARMY

The only thing that comes to mind is either the bowl drain is not completely shutting off or the overflow pipe has a hole/not sealed at the base.?....Or the float is hanginging up along the way and not closing?...Thats all I got.

Does yours have and adjustable float or not? Black float will be an adjustable float. tan or light brown will be non-adjustable. Very early 78's had the adjustable floats.

The little "button" on the float needle is supposed to spring back like that.

Sounds to me like your idle before was off due to a plugged idle circuit tube. As this is almost always the problem with the Express carbs.

From what you are saying about the fuel overflowing and then the bowl being empty right away, I'm not sure...

That really makes no sense. Because it a correctly working carb, the bowl will fill with fuel before it comes out the overflow, and when you unscrew the bowl drain screw fuel will come out untill the bowl is empty. Unless your drain screw is not actually opening up to the bowl, meaning it's blocked.

Anyway, your biggest thing right now is the overflowing fuel. Either your needle needs replaced or the float is bad/out of adjustment. As this is the internal valve that shuts off fuel flow to the carb.

If the drain screw was rusted, it might have distorted the sealing face in the bowl. Even though its shut all the way it still wont seal right. Dont pull the idle tube out if it wont come out easily, One of the big problems with that idle circut is it clogging bad. To clean it out good you get a nice steel spring out of a pen, unwind it and keep shoving it down the tube until you can see light thru the tube and out the idle air/mix screw hole. It has to be a really thin strong spring though. Check that drain for sure, if it is messed up go to the hardware store and get a little o-ring that will go around the screw and at the same time seal up the bowl portion. Good luck and keep us posted.

Ok, so I pulled it off and what I did was close the bowl to the body turned gas on and separated it while it was filling and I found that the bowl is not filling and emptying out a small hole/tunnel at the bottom for the drain screw and overflow. Does it make sense? I can't see if they are supposed to be separate channels or if this "test" is even valid. Look at it here:

http://s1136.photobucket.com/albums/n489/scuzz21/ (edited)

Well when you mentioned a small o ring for the screw I realized that I did have a smaller one than the one I put on there so I changed it out, screwed it in tight, and BAM! it stopped flowing out! I tried starting but engine is still flooded so I removed plug for it to dry. I will try it tomorrow but its still "burping" out gas when I try starting it.

your better off getting a week-ends intake and a new carb.

So I had to take the idle out (wasn't in there that bad) and I watched the u-tube video (uses a newer carb w/auto choke). I am supposed to see straight through it right (I can't)? My end is eathier really clogged or there is a Honda engineer in there. No matter what I put in there I cannot get it through.

Well, after an hour and a half I finally got the idle circuit clear, thank you for the advice! But I still have the overflow issue, it has to do with the drain screw not sealing off the overflow channel, even with an o-ring. The overflow and the drain channels flow into each other. Now, I need to seal off the drain "entrance" at the bottom of the bowl. Any ideas, JB weld? (edited)