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HIF4 Carb Leakage

To: MG Mailing List <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: HIF4 Carb Leakage
From: "John M. Trindle" <jtrindle@tsquare.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 10:41:15 -0500 (EST)
My front carb has suddenly decided to stop retaining damping fluid (now 
that I finally got the "right stuff", it is dumping it).

If I remove the piston and dashpot cover from the carb, and put fluid in 
it... when I press the piston up into the cover damping oil squirts out 
around the needle (!)

Is there an O-ring or something I might have broken, or have I poked a 
hole in the center section (where you pour the oil)?  I may have been a 
bit rough with it when removing a fixed needle and fixed needle adapter a 
couple weeks ago.

Basically I would like to fix and not purchase a new one.

The car seems to be running well without fluid in the front carb (the 
rear one is retaining just fine), except when all three dashpot cover 
screws disappeared on the way back from an autocross last weekend.  Then 
it got a might unhappy.

John M. Trindle | jtrindle@tsquare.com | Tidewater Sports Car Club
'73 MGB DSP     | '69 Spitfire E Stock | '88 RX-7 C Stock
Home Page:  http://www.widomaker.com/~trindle
"God bless and keep the Czar...  far away from us! - Tevye"


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