MOPED ARMY

Can you pinpoint exactly where it's leaking from? My SHA leaked at the banjo AND from the float bowl, and it took me forever to figure out that it was leaking from more than one place.

try this... with the bowl off, turn the gas on then manually lift the float to the closed position. does the flow of gas out of the bottom of the carb stop? it shouldnt take much lifting pressure.

this is concrete evidence that the float needle is doing its job.

Know what's even better than letting gas leak out all over your bike and your hand? Take off the carb, drain it, wipe it down and hold it upside down so the float is in the closed position. With no pressure on it, blow into the banjo and if you hear air coming out, the needle is bad. Try lifting the float to the open position (normally down) and blowing, then letting it fall closed again. That's how I do it. If air can't get through, neither can gas. Plus, you're not draining gas all over yourself.

OK, I figured out what was wrong. It was leaking from the float bowl, so I knew the gas line was fine, and the gas flow wasn't shutting off to the bowl. I turned on the gas and pushed the float up, and the gas stopped running out. I turned off the gas and tested to make sure the float was floating again. It did.

I finally realized what was wrong. There is a little metal tab which stops the float from traveling too far down and getting stuck in the bowl. The tab had bent out somehow letting the float down further than stock. The float wasn't getting stuck, but that tab was hitting on the inside of the float bowl making it so that the float couldn't go up all the way to shut off the fuel flow.

If your PHBG leaks, bend this tab first. It would have saved a lot of time if I knew it would stop the float from traveling all the way up.

Thanks for all of the awesome replies.

Eric