80 GS 550 rebuilding carbs... extra gasket for carb 2

[egetron]

totally befuddled...

While starting to rebuild the carbs on my 1980 gs550 I noticed something that I didn't notice while taking them apart.



On the #2 carb, there's a hole I don't remember being there. In the other 3 carbs, normally there would be that small donut shaped gasket there (the one sitting to the right of the #2 carb with nowhere to go)...

so now I've ended up with this extra, lonely gasket, where does it go?

I assume this orifice has something to do with this carb providing vacuum pressure for the petcock?

what am I missing??

[Guest]

You are missing a plug in the #2. You need to find it.

[egetron]

FOUND IT! it was sitting precariously in my kitchen drain, just barely too wide to go down... wow that was close.

Thanks so much!

What's the point of this passageway/plug? The plugs in the other 3 carbs seem to be pretty stuck in there... like they're not really designed to ever come out.

How do I make sure that this doesn't come loose again? Is there some sort of glue/threadlock I should put in there?

[Guest]

FOUND IT! it was sitting precariously in my kitchen drain, just barely too wide to go down... wow that was close.

Thanks so much!

What's the point of this passageway/plug? The plugs in the other 3 carbs seem to be pretty stuck in there... like they're not really designed to ever come out.

How do I make sure that this doesn't come loose again? Is there some sort of glue/threadlock I should put in there?

There is not harm in using loctite on that plug. If you put it in right with the o-ring it will not come out with the float bowl on, even without loctite.

[egetron]

Thanks! Carbs back together. can't wait to get this baby running