Gary has a good point. When I first started driving my car after an engine
rebuild, which included a professional carburetor rebuild, it leaked like
crazy. It turned out that the bowl mounting screws were too loose.
Tightening them solved the problem. In Jay's case, with a little detective
work, it should be easy to verify whether or not it's the accelerator pump.
Regarding my accelerator pump leakage problem, it was indeed a bad
diaphragm. But this was just the final chapter in series of fuel leaks,
most likely caused by the ethanol gas additive here in California. During
the rebuild I had installed stainless steel braded AN6 Earls fuel lines.
After about five years, these lines began leaking when whatever the inner
material was made of started deteriorating. I solved that problem by
replacing the lines with stainless steel braded Teflon lines. At least I
hope I did!
Roland
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> From: Gary Winblad <garywinblad@comcast.net>
> Jay,
> Are you sure? I've had blown diaphrams but don't think they ever leaked.
> But, I've had plenty of Holley leaks from the fuel bowls and just last
> week from
> the adjustable float adjuster. Fuel will drip off the lowest point
> (accelerator
> pump) but the leak usually is from above.
> Gary
> ------------------------------
>> From: Jay Laifman
>>
>> On the flip side, I noticed that the Holley is dripping gas out the
>> bottom,
>> from what looks like an accelerator pump. Looks like the carb needs to
>> come
>> out to service it.
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