float level too high or stuck, could have stuff stuck in the needle and seat

Took front bowl off, and cleaned out all the funk, and blew out the jets with carb cleaner. Took out the float and needle and cleaned them all up as well. Not sure how to set a float, so I just put it back in about the way it was. Fired it up in the garage-10:25 PM here!  Started way to easy...for not haveing any fuel in the bowl,-did have a fair amount of carb cleaner down the manifold. Only ran it for about 10 seconds twice, but seemed to idle as well as ever for a cold motor. Probly wont get to try it on the water for a few days, but mabe this will help. If I have the float set to low...the worst that will happen is the engine may suck the bowl dry...RIGHT? If it is too high, fuel will still dump into the carb like crazy... RIGHT?   Or am I way off?

The floats are pretty easy to set. It only has to be running if you have a mech fuel pump. I did mine with just the elec fuel pump running. I had the same problem and I had to install a fuel pressure regulator. You never want to run with the floats to low. You will be at risk of running to lean which can lead to a lot of bad things. Maybe even destroy a couple pistons, rings or the whole bottom end from pre-detonation

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