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1. Help! Fuel Leak! (score: 1)
Author: Brent Barnes <brentbarnes309@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 09:58:39 -0800 (PST)
Backed her (60 BT7 Mk I dual carb) out this morning to tinker under the hood and discovered a nipple on the bottom front of the intake manifold that seems to be dripping raw gasoline! Right onto the
/html/healeys/2004-11/msg00419.html (7,543 bytes)

2. Re: Help! Fuel Leak! (score: 1)
Author: David Nock <healeydoc@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 09:59:50 -0800
This is normal when the car has been sitting for a while. When the engine is cold and you have the choke not all the gas makes it to the cylinders and sits in the bottom of the manifold. The excess g
/html/healeys/2004-11/msg00420.html (8,388 bytes)

3. Re: Help! Fuel Leak! (score: 1)
Author: Blue One Hundred <international_investor@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:50:32 -0800 (PST)
That nipple is the fuel drain for the manifold. It is standard equipment on all SU carbed British Cars from the 50's and 60's. You are missing the copper pipette that screws to the bottom of it so t
/html/healeys/2004-11/msg00421.html (8,569 bytes)

4. Re: Help! Fuel Leak! (score: 1)
Author: "Alex" <alexmm@adelphia.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:26:32 -0500
Brent, Alan et al: On my BT7 the petrol drain pipes were broken off and missing, but the little two-part screw-in fittings on the underside of the intake manifold were in place. I removed them, clean
/html/healeys/2004-11/msg00423.html (9,471 bytes)

5. Re: Help! Fuel Leak! (score: 1)
Author: "Greg Lemon" <glemon@neb.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:53:37 -0600
" Brent - That nipple is the fuel drain for the manifold. It is standard equipment on all SU carbed British Cars from the 50's and 60's. You are missing the copper pipette that screws to the bottom o
/html/healeys/2004-11/msg00424.html (8,090 bytes)

6. Re: Help! Fuel Leak! (score: 1)
Author: Earl Kagna <kags@shaw.ca>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:06:43 -0800
Correction - except for the tri-carb Healeys, which is why they tend to cough and f**t a lot more when shut off while still cold, and then re-started. In fact, it can be downright embarrasing at time
/html/healeys/2004-11/msg00425.html (8,233 bytes)

7. Re: Help! Fuel Leak! (score: 1)
Author: Dave & Marlene <rusd@velocitus.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:38:28 -0700
Hi Brent, Others have explained the purpose of these "drains". In my nearly singular opinion, "silly thing" is exactly that. I guess they are there in case the float valves on poorly maintained SU ca
/html/healeys/2004-11/msg00426.html (10,126 bytes)

8. Re: Help! Fuel Leak! (score: 1)
Author: Dave & Marlene <rusd@velocitus.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:44:18 -0700
Hi Earl, I suspect that the cough and f**t is more a result of the engine being over carburated than of a lack of drain pipes. Dave Russell BN2
/html/healeys/2004-11/msg00427.html (8,031 bytes)

9. RE: Help! Fuel Leak! (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Salter" <michaelsalter@rogers.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:09:17 -0500
Hi Dave. Although I can appreciate your thoughts on the subject of manifold drains I think it is worth considering just how much damage raw fuel does do to an engine. In my experience a carburetored
/html/healeys/2004-11/msg00428.html (11,281 bytes)

10. Re: Help! Fuel Leak! (score: 1)
Author: "Mark and Kathy" <mgtrcars@galaxyinternet.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:39:44 -0600
That is unless your a really strange person and don't want fuel spilling on your brand new garage floor. This situation did occur to me and of course I thought something major was wrong but of course
/html/healeys/2004-11/msg00429.html (8,974 bytes)

11. Re: Help! Fuel Leak! (score: 1)
Author: "davidwjones" <davidwjones@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 20:19:15 -0500
Excuse me!!!............. but my tricarb has never F**ted, does not f**t, and will never f**t.......!!!! However, under the conditions you describe, it does seem to "have wind" with alarming regulari
/html/healeys/2004-11/msg00430.html (8,916 bytes)

12. Re: Help! Fuel Leak! (score: 1)
Author: Awgertoo@aol.com
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 20:22:20 EST
Best--Michael Oritt, 100 Le Mans
/html/healeys/2004-11/msg00431.html (7,787 bytes)

13. Re: Help! Fuel Leak! (score: 1)
Author: Dave & Marlene <rusd@velocitus.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 20:44:33 -0700
Hi Michael, You have compared the cylinder wear on an older carbureted engine to a more modern engine design with fuel injection, & somehow attributed the lesser cylinder wear to the presence of fuel
/html/healeys/2004-11/msg00433.html (11,096 bytes)

14. RE: Help! Fuel Leak! (score: 1)
Author: "Freese, Ken" <Ken.Freese@Aerojet.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:41:50 -0800
I have had my drain pipes removed and the fittings capped for 20 years or more due to header interference. No problems that I know of. Ken Freese 65 3000
/html/healeys/2004-11/msg00443.html (7,602 bytes)

15. Re: Help! Fuel Leak! (score: 1)
Author: Dave & Marlene <rusd@velocitus.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:36:57 -0700
Hi Michael, You are quite correct. My contention is that properly set up & maintained carbs don't flood in the first place. As I said earlier, I have never had a SU carb flood. It appears that the de
/html/healeys/2004-11/msg00445.html (8,168 bytes)

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