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Carb kit doesnt quite fit

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Hey guys, so i ordered a carb kit for my 82' GS850L and the float seat doesn't fit, its the right carb thats supposed to be on the bike, but the carb kit i ordered everything else fits except the float seat. any answers or help you guys can give me?
 
When you say carb kit I'm going to assume you mean a rebuild kit. Going on that assumption I will go further and guess you went with a non OEM kit which very often doesn't come with the best quality parts. My suggestion would be to reuse your stock float needle seat and just put a set of new o-rings on it, which you can get from www.cycleorings.com. Robert Barr is the proprietor and a member here. I have bought 4 kits from him thus far with absolutely zero issues. The kit will include new o-rings for the vent and fuel tubes as well as the choke assemblies and mixture needles as well as the float assemblies. If you are wanting to try to make due with what you have measure the diameter of the seat you got against the diameter of the hole it goes into. If I were to guess you might just have a sticky o-ring which can be remedied with a sparing amount of lubrication and a bit of a twisting action inserting it. The only thing I've ever HAD to replace in any of my carbs were some of the float needles but never the seats themselves.
 
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