The gas is pouring from between the float setter hex and the adjusting screw, but - that's just the path of least resistance. The real problem is the bowl is too full of gas - no matter how much I adjust the float it doesn't make any difference.
If I open the secondary sight screw it pours out there too.
My best guess at this point is gas is pouring out a small hole in the gasket between the secondary metering block and the metering plate that screws to the block. My other theory is that one of the screws (not a hex screw, not like any screw I've ever seen) that holds the metering
plate was loose, and gas is seeping past that screw.
Either a bad gasket or a loose screw would render float adjustment useless, right?
I gotta wait to find out if I'm right, 'cuz I couldn't take the gasket off in one piece, and had to order another one.
Bigcar, you may be right, but remember I swapped in a whole new secondary bowl including the needle valve and the seat, so that would mean I had two bad needle and seats....not impossible, but not likely either.