Are Floats Solid or Hollow ?

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Are Floats Solid or Hollow ?

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I just took my 79 carbs apart, and one of the floats has a couple nicks in it towards the bottom. The larger nick is about a 1/8" long and 0.1 " deep. I am concerned that the float may be getting gas into it ,if it is hollow core. Does anyone know if they are hollow or solid ? I could not hear any fuel sloshing around, but then the carb had been dry for a while.
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Most brass floats I've seen are hollow. Just shaking an old one around and I could heaar gas in it. Not good

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Post by Mike Nixon »

The CBX' floats are not brass, they're solid plastic, a sort of very dense styrofoam, but of course not styrofoam but something like it that is impervious to fuels. I have heard however that some exotic racing fuels can dissolve them. A chip won't hurt, as long as the float doesn't then start deteriorating, as the pieces will contaminate the carburetor. Honda stopped using hollow brass floats a few years before the CBX was introduced. :D

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