if yo have a bad o ring in one carb and the other is ok?

idle problems?
carb spits out fuel therfore soaked air filter?

Either of those symptoms could be related to a loss of vacuum - either at the o ring or elsewhere.

Which O-ring seamax... they were pretty nice on yours... the ones on the top were atleast. I am forgetting... did they have the rubber caps on them... They should else it suck air. And air filter having gas is overflow... not spit otu by the carbs.
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Srinath.

Srinath...the o ring, upper one, on the dirty carb (the one you thought was on the ground since it could have been bought from a junkyard) was either not there is really old.

The mechanic took apart the carbs and showed me the too. The one on the left was snugged and the right one was really loose. He also said the valve on that side flutter wildly so he thinks it because of the o ring and thus the bike is running rich.

Also that carb has dirt duild up inside. I didn't really understand what he meant until he showed me the inside of the dirty carb.

So he's going to clean the carb and put in some new o rings or even a carb kit and see if that't the problem.

I specifically told him not to change the jets since it was just rejetted.

OK The O-rings were there when I sent it to you... Did you take it apart and see it... Cos I am sure it was there. The other thing is valve fluttering because O-ring wasn't there... that's a tall story... what valve is fluttering and why... even more funny... that wont cause the floats to fill up and overflow into the airfilter. Inside was dirty... not when I sent it... however the outside was still dirty just cos there was so much of it... I didn't want to contaminate my cleaning supply with all that dirt... I took off as much as possible and its not neccesary to get the outside shiny clean... also the inside being a little black and fine powdery dust... is mainly carbon coming from a running motor... especially one that is misfiring and running badly... will put out more of it than one that is running good.
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Srinath.

OK I think I knwo what might have happened... your float has a tendency to stick open in 1 carb... now I wanted to replace the float bowl screws with allens before sending it... and I left them loose... and I went and bought the allens... and I forgot the allen wrench when I went to the store... so I tossed in that packet... In shipping those float bowl screws left loose would have let the floats wiggle into the position they stick open... and that was making the thing flow over. Did you get the phillips screws off and put in the allens... and did you see what the bowls were doing and if they were closing...
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Srinath.

Srinath...I did not check whether the bowls were closing or not.

All I did was take out the carbs, took off the phillips screws and changed them to the allens.

Then put the carbs back onto the bike.

Let me see what happens when the mechanic puts in new o rings.

Also do you know why the float seems to stick in carb 1?

I took the carbs apart and cleaned and sprayed with wd40... in that state nothing will stick... and needless to say it didn't stick... I also looked at it right before I did anything.. .and I PM'ed you saying if it was sticking before... its not now... It doesn't do it all the time... but once it does stick it ruins your day... or week... Honestly though I have seen bikes do that... my eli is a good example... and hit the bottom of the bowl woth a screwdriver handle and it closes back... riding always keeps the thing shaken well so it wont stick. If so much rust has flowed into the carbs that its keeping the floats from closing... that's a huge problem.
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Srinath.