Thread: Fuel is pouring out of secondarys! What's wrong???

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There should be a gasket between the nut and the bowl, a very thin gasket, at least there is on my 650 DP.

.....ah ok, then I need new washers to go between the nut & bowl and between the nut & screw. I have the see through plastic washers & may be they dried out from sitting for 5 months. The stuff I ordered should be here on Wednesday or Thursday. So I'll have a new Viton needle & seat w/ 'O' ring. Plus the new washers {two sets probably cuz I ordered the hardware kit but the needle & seat probably already come with washers}.... THANKS & I'll update after I install these,..... Bill

.....Thanks Denny, mine looks very similar to one of the pictures you posted.
I just cut two new small gasgets out of some water pump gasget material that I had laying around & used them in place of the gasgets that were on the needle & seat. Guess what??? Yep, it doesn't leak anymore! .... Although I doubt the material I used is gasoline proof it still shows me what was/is wrong. It's not leaking now & my new gasgets will be here in a couple of days. I guess the gasgets will last that long before the gas eats 'em up??? Anyway THANKS to all who responded!!! ;0 .//. Bill

....yeah, in my High School car guy days I had a reputation for over-tightening things so when I replace the Seat I'll make sure that I don't overtighten it .... THANKS for the 'heads up' on that one Denny .... But it's going to be tempting to NOT put the new needle & seat in cuz it seems to work!! And to adjust the float level all I did was tighten the nut down, tighten the screw down & then check the float level hole & it was PURR-FECT as is!! THANKS AGAIN Bill