The only information of what its says about the carb is number p/n 0-80457s Street Warrior. Its been raining off and on hear today. Hopefully I,ll get a chance to mess with it tomorrow. Thanks guys.
That 80457S is an aluminium 4160 series, 600 CFM w/ electric choke. It's a decent universal 4-barrel, the modern day equivalent of the good old 1850 series.
It should be considered a replacement for stock carburetors, and will work well with headers too.
As long as your engine can make minimum 15 in/hg of idle vacuum, it should be fine. Any much lower, whether by lumpy cam or tired engine, and your power valve may open too soon, causing some rich bogging on mild acceleration with worn engine, or ragged idle quality with big cam.
the odds are very good that teh float bowl is empty. THAT usually happens when the INLET NEEDLE is stuck in the closed (down) position, preventing gas from entering the float bowl.
I agree 100%. Sometimes they take a little extra oomph to pop the needle clear.
I took the front bowl off and it was clean and the float looked level. Any suggestions?
I just went out and adjusted the float and now I am getting gas through the knozzle and checked the float level and seems ok now.
I would caution you here that restored fuel level was probably caused by the needle freeing up when you removed the bowl, and not by your float adjustment. I'm guessing, since you said it was pretty level
you now have it set too high.
Recommend you readjustt the float for a lower level before next startup, then remove the threaded sight plug and readjust it running to get the level to the bottom edge of that window.
These carbs can be sensitive to float levels, but once it's set, it's usually good to go forever.
