[panhead59]

I am working on a 66 tripower. Mike Wasson rebuilt the set last fall. Car never really ran much last year. Or at least I never got to this problem to fix it. He has been VERY helpful and these ?'s will go to him Monday if I can't get it "right" by then. Car runs very good but center carb floods after first start, when you turn it off. Of course that also makes for a smelly garage. Engine will restart, after more turns than should be, burns off the excess fuel with an embarrassing cloud of gas, and then runs fine. It has the heat insulaters installed already. Mike said to put a fuel pressure gauge inline as modern fuel pumps are set with to much pressure for this carb. Did that, no help. He also said to make sure the needle valve seat for the cut off was tight, it was/is. Being a new valve and seat, I soaked the float. No leaks. So one other thing that comes to mind is checking the float level. Does anyone know the correct measurement for the float level ? It is at 10/32 now. Any other thoughts on what I could check? Thank you.