thank you for the reply.
I have a 1999 (early, made in May) 500 Bullet.
I have been trying to dial my carb in so i have the ideal setting. I was running a bit to rich at low speed/idle so i thought i would try to 27.5 jet rather than the 30 i had installed. I put this in and it ran awful. The bike would spit, and cough when starting up then when i would try to ride it the bike would hesitate and jerk... i could tell it was running way to lean. I went back to my garage and put the 30 back in thinking i would just deal with the richness problem. I went to go out for a ride and the sale problem persisted that i had with the 27.5. I could get the bike to idle somewhat ok (not as good as before) but as soon as i would put it in gear and hit the throttle the bike would hesitate, jerk, go a little then want to stall. My first thoughts were a clogged jet passage so i blew everything out with air and then carb cleaner several time, removed and inspected all jets as well as passages. I then thought it may be related to fuel flow. I drained and removed the tank and found some rust/debris in the upper petcock filter i removed and cleaned the filter as well as completely disassembled the petcock. I tested before the cleaning and after with little improvement, i get anywhere from 200-220 ML in 1 minuet from the fuel line from the carb as well as when tested flowing through the carb with the bottom hex nut of the float chamber removed.
Before i switched out the pilot jet i had a 30 in and it ran well. Pick up was strong from a stop, no hessitation and idled well, it was just a little rich. so whatever my problem is it happened during the time when i removed the carb and put in the 27.5 becuase after i switched that out and put the 30 back it i still have the same problems as i did with the 27.5,
My thoughts are that i may have unknowingly bummed or moved the float and this is the cause of my problems.
I have a battery that is fully charged and is less than a month old. I cleaned my points, readjusted my gap and checked/re-set static timing.
After trying several float heights last night with no progress i lowered the chambers (pushed down on them with the carb in hand upside down) to about 24MM. i put it back on my bike and i cant even get it to kick over now. I have spark and a good amount of battery power.
when you say "if you set the float at a lesser height the bowl will fill more and it will have a tendency to run rich" . do you mean lesser as the float will sit closer to the bottom of the float bowl or closer to the top of the carb/needle assembly?
I have checked several times that i have the correct pilot jet in, i know those numbers are small but i made sure i didnt make a simple error and end up with a 10 in their or something.
Thank you for the help.