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<blockquote data-quote="snowflake" data-source="post: 187513" data-attributes="member: 152"><p>So yeah, I still haven't started a thread primarily because I don't have a lot of pics, but I recently spent 4 days in Moab with a group of friends out of Texas. There were more bikes than there were 4x4's which is fine by me, but anyway, Blake has a 09 KTM 450XC-F that sits more than it gets ridden, he gets to my house to spend the evening before everyone caravans the last 250 miles up into Moab, well, bike won't start, ok dirty carb, we put it in the shop, thinking since its steel framed and we can see the carb it will be easy, well you have to pull the subframe off to get to it anyway, and we get that done, pull the carb, I removed the float to clean more thoroughly, after cleaning is done I leave to use the restroom and the rest of the fellas went ahead and put the bowl back on, so we slap the rest of the bike back together, and it now runs, but it dumps fuel out the overflows like crazy, we'll deal with it in Moab, so we drive up there, and all while we were driving and most of the night I was trying to figure out what could be wrong, eventually float issue clicked and I went to sleep, I woke up the following morning, unloaded it off his bike carrier and had it torn apart by our camper before everyone was up, the float had been put in backwards and one of the ends had broken off and jammed in the bowl. Phone calls were made, some dude had a carb off an 08 CRF450R off and offered to sell us the float if we thought it could work, I figured they were both FCR's so it would probably work, float was bought, it worked, KTM got ridden in Moab, good times were had.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="snowflake, post: 187513, member: 152"] So yeah, I still haven't started a thread primarily because I don't have a lot of pics, but I recently spent 4 days in Moab with a group of friends out of Texas. There were more bikes than there were 4x4's which is fine by me, but anyway, Blake has a 09 KTM 450XC-F that sits more than it gets ridden, he gets to my house to spend the evening before everyone caravans the last 250 miles up into Moab, well, bike won't start, ok dirty carb, we put it in the shop, thinking since its steel framed and we can see the carb it will be easy, well you have to pull the subframe off to get to it anyway, and we get that done, pull the carb, I removed the float to clean more thoroughly, after cleaning is done I leave to use the restroom and the rest of the fellas went ahead and put the bowl back on, so we slap the rest of the bike back together, and it now runs, but it dumps fuel out the overflows like crazy, we'll deal with it in Moab, so we drive up there, and all while we were driving and most of the night I was trying to figure out what could be wrong, eventually float issue clicked and I went to sleep, I woke up the following morning, unloaded it off his bike carrier and had it torn apart by our camper before everyone was up, the float had been put in backwards and one of the ends had broken off and jammed in the bowl. Phone calls were made, some dude had a carb off an 08 CRF450R off and offered to sell us the float if we thought it could work, I figured they were both FCR's so it would probably work, float was bought, it worked, KTM got ridden in Moab, good times were had. [/QUOTE]

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