Been attempting to sort the inconsistent running issues on my lad's Kazuma Meerkat 50cc quad.

Stripped the carb today and gave it a thorough clean. Anyway, could someone tell by looking at the pic below, should there be a pipe/hose coming from the area circled in red? If so where should it go to and if not, what is this bit for/does it do.

Much appreciated.

 

No-one got the same carb/quad they could have a look at for me?

 

it is a blind. an object/device designed to stop a flow from entering/exiting an orifice. that looks factory. i wouldn't worry about it.
what seems to be the problem with it?

 

When i was cleaning out the carb with carb cleaner, fluid would exit from here, there is a small hole on the underneath which lead me to think there should be a pipe from it?

I posted a thread a bit further down the page about the running issues!

Cheers

 

. hmm....i need to do more research.

 

Thanks

 

Does it pull out a little ? Or push in a little? If it does, I am thinking it might be a high altitude "setting" for your bike. However I haven't seen one in a long time and then only on Honda trail bikes.
It appears to be knurled it the end of it, or have some kind of finger hold.
Maybe....

 

OK then... Maybe not.

 

my research has yielded ziltch, zero, nada, nunya, nothin. all i can guess is that it is a blinded port that is not needed with this quad. BUT, could be used on another quad for a mod or something. i just don't know. i'd have to tear that sucker apart and look at it from the inside. i haven't come across a carb like that.....yet.

 

Kinda looks like some of the old Jap carbs of the early sixty's that had a brass tube and a hole in the bottom that I came across.Plus some of the British Amal carbs had something similar.If you don't have any sort of other vent on the other side of the carb,this has to be an atmospheric vent for the float bowl chamber. Funny though,this same spot is the same location for the choke pivot screw on later model plastic choke levers.http://www.ebay.com/itm/30MM-MIKUNI-CARBURETOR-CRF-XR-100-200-250-CARB-ATV-PIT-DIRT-BIKE-THUMPSTAR-QUAD-/121060132364?pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&hash=item1c2fbf060c&vxp=mtr