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Re: SU Carb -- Float Leaking

To: "Curtis Carlson" <carlson@navtech.com>, <chasdoug@gte.net>, <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: SU Carb -- Float Leaking
From: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:51:32 -0400
Reply-to: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
When you say "brass rod", you mean "brass tube", don't you? <g>

Good idea.

Tom Zuchowski
'61 Bugeye

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> From: Curtis Carlson <carlson@navtech.com>
> To: chasdoug@gte.net; spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
> Subject: Re: SU Carb -- Float Leaking
> Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 10:10 AM
> 
> Mine did this on my Sprite MKIII last year.  Decided to do it in the
middle of
> our funkhana and spurted gasoline directly onto the exhaust pipe!  Yikes!
 No
> fire, but I was scared S**tless!
> 
> Anyway, check to make sure the float bowl isn't hanging up.  If the float
> sticks down, it doesn't shut off the fuel flow with the needle valve, and
the
> fuel flows out through the overflow hole just under the fuel inlet when
the
> pump continues to push fuel.  The float should move freely, and there
should be
> no burrs on the float axle.  If you have an original float, I would
consider
> replacing the floats and axles.  Also, you can remove the aluminum
deflector
> over the overflow hole, and insert a small brass rod, to which you can
attach
> an overflow hose draining safely away from the exhaust pipe and onto the
> ground.  It's good insurance.
> 
> Curt
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 28,  8:09pm, chasdoug@gte.net wrote:
> > Subject: SU Carb -- Float Leaking
> > The rear float of my HS2's is leaking on occasion.  Actually, leaking
is
> > an understatement.  It's pumping out significant quantities of gas --
> > ooops -- petrol.
> >
> > If I take the lid off and fiddle with the gasket and put the lid back
> > on, it seems to dry up for awhile, but it starts dumping again
> > eventually.  Or, if I remove the gas line and reconnect it, it
sometimes
> > goes away for awhile.
> >
> > Since I'm not really fixing anything, and since it _looks_ like the gas
> > is actually coming out of the top (underneath the gas line), I'm
> > starting to think there must be something else wrong.
> >
> > Is there some kind of overflow?  What causes it to need to overflow? 
Or
> > is my gasket technique that bad?
> >
> > Help?
> >
> > Chas Douglass -- Seattle WA
> >
> >-- End of excerpt from chasdoug@gte.net
> 
> 
> 
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> Curtis Carlson
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