For decades, I have just try to blow thru it & press the needle with light finger pressure & if it blocks, I assume its OK.
Over time I've sometimes noticed a bit of fuel dripping from the throttle spindle & a slight difficulty starting from hot. Didn't pay much attention.
Last week, in the bush, I parked overnight on an up slope with a full tank.
I got home to fumes from the engine & found a lovely halo of oil spray on the inside of the engine lid (KG)
The fuel had leaked into the sump & thinned out the oil so much that it defeated the oil return scroll on the fan pulley!
Oil change fixed the proplem- hopefully no damage to bearing & barrells!
Wot's the go with needle & seats? I'm tempted to rig up a carby in the vice & leave a old m/cycle tank of fuel connected to it o'nite with gravity feed to see if it leaks!
Or do ppl just replace them regularly?
If you have an older VW with a fuel tap, it may be an idea to turn it OFF when parked uphill to make sure.
Funny, but until recently, all m/cycles had fuel taps that you turned off when parked. That's a habit I always follow when parking my old BMW R100RS as a matter of course. Is there a lesson there?
geodon Wolfsburg Wizard
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