| At 11:27 PM 11/9/99 -0500, Greg Monfort wrote:
>It figures! I've never worked on one of these, but the gas appears to be
>coming from the main air bleed. I don't see any fuel fog in the boost
>venturis, so I assume the motor's not running.
>
>The main air bleed isn't normally connected in any way with the accelerator
>pump circuit, so I don't see how this can occur when the motor's not
>running. The only possibility I see is that where the upper plate attaches
>to the body proper, there may be a problem with the gasket, allowing some
>fuel transfer to the air bleed to take place......
As I remember the one on my friends 74, it is like there is supposed to be
a ball bearing covering a molding hole and the bearing had fallen out.
John
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