The term leak is used a lot as a general term when related fuel or oil problems when excess of either one is visible. We all probably get customers bringing equipment as saying its leaking fuel or oil. Once the equipment is in our hands it is our job to find the source of the problem be it an actual leak or overflow problem. Sometimes this simple and at other times it is enough make us to want to take BFH to it.
I know guy that took a EBFH to his brand new push mower because it would not start then he the bright
to check the fuel which it was out of.
From what I gather is he was trying to find how the fuel got into the float.
Personally it is not worth the time to find to problem with the float as Sky referred to. It is the same with any float that get fuel laden it best to simply replace it and save the time for something else. You got pick and chose your battles; the float battle is one that I usually lose so I just install new floats.
It is just too time intensive as many floats as some as you fix one leak another shows up as with metal floats the metal has thin even further than the paper thin metal initially used. Even the act of soldering which involves an aggressive type of flux (acid and not rosin) to wet the metal so the solder sticks which erode away the metal. It is like trying to weld rusty metal.
Dale once you install the new float you should pressure test the carburetor before saying all is resolved as you may have multiple problems all looking like the same thing.
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