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1. How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: Tab Julius <tab@penworks.com>; Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:45:32 -0400; My '78B has twin SU carbs; I've been having intermittent (but always at inconvenient times) power problems; it more often than not happens on the highway when it's being given some gas. It falters, a; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00365.html (8,645 bytes)
2. Re: How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: Charles & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>; Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:19:13 -0500; If both carb bowls are clean - I'm assuming HS carbs since you didn't say - then any clog is probably in the fuel line before the filter, the pump, the line to the pump or in the tank. Also, the char; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00366.html (8,541 bytes)
3. Re: How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: Tab Julius <tab@penworks.com>; Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:30:59 -0400; This is sort of my first endeavor into the fuel end of things - usually I've fought with other issues, so I apologize for maybe overlooking the obvious. From previous postings we've eliminated (rough; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00367.html (9,120 bytes)
4. Re: How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: Paul Root <proot@iaces.com>; Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:32:52 -0500; Well if your sure it's the carbs... As has been said before, 90% of SU problems is ignition. You don't say what kind of SUs they are. What you want to open up and clean is the float bowls. Pretty eas; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00368.html (11,834 bytes)
5. Re: How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: Tab Julius <tab@penworks.com>; Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:03:11 -0400; I'm not sure, but the last time I floated the problem invariably everyone said "clean out the fuel filter, and if it's not that, clean the carbs". I didn't have to remove the carb, I just took my scr; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00369.html (8,623 bytes)
6. Re: How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: Paul Root <proot@iaces.com>; Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:47:08 -0500; Ok. If you're sure. My Mazda was having terrible trouble about a year ago. I was absolutely sure that it was the fuel injection. The dealer found a wire (I think it was Ve+) on the coil had a bad con; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00371.html (10,484 bytes)
7. Re: How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: Stephen West-Fisher <steve@coastaldatasystems.com>; Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:02:28 -0400; That sounds like you only looked at the suction chamber and piston. I cannot speak to anything but the HIF, the float chamber is on the very bottom of the carb, you would need to remove it from the c; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00372.html (8,848 bytes)
8. Re: How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>; Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:33:14 -0700; This symptom is consistent with a sticking needle valve. Here is what I have done in similar circumstances. Remove the top of the float bowl -- the dangling object is the float. Make sure it is not f; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00373.html (10,986 bytes)
9. Re: How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>; Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:45:06 -0700; I should have specified I was describing HS carbs....; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00374.html (10,037 bytes)
10. Re: How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: Tab Julius <tab@penworks.com>; Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:06:04 -0400; This sounds like it's a good place to start without disassembling the whole fuel system. As far as your adding threadlocker to prevent a recurrence, the only threadlocker I'm familiar with is an adhe; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00375.html (10,117 bytes)
11. Re: How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>; Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:16:56 -0700; Threadlocker is an adhesive, but it's more like superglue than silicone. It would be applied to the threads to keep the valve from unscrewing. You wouldn't use it unless you were experiencing this un; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00376.html (11,175 bytes)
12. Re: How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: "Henry D. Reynolds" <hdr@halsoft.com>; Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:11:26 -0500; it could be a fuel pump at the end of its service life. -- "Alle Menschen werden Bruder" Henry D. Reynolds - System Administrator mail: hdr@pobox.com - phone: 512.448.3617 - cell: 512.699.8658; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00377.html (8,858 bytes)
13. Re: How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: "Chris K." <ckotting@wideopenwest.com>; Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 09:07:21 -0400; The tach only tells you about the low tension side of the ignition. The problem could well be between the coil and the plugs (high tension side). Check for a bad cap or rotor, or cross-firing betwee; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00384.html (10,074 bytes)
14. Re: How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: Tab Julius <tab@penworks.com>; Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 19:56:32 -0400; Well, I just tried to make it up to Stowe for the British Invasion and it gave me a lot of grief. The engine seems to be running, just doesn't have anything to propel it. It's exactly the same feelin; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00394.html (9,783 bytes)
15. Re: How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>; Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:31:14 -0500; It sure sounds to me like intermittent fuel starvation, but I have had exactly those symptoms from an electrical fault. The wee ground wire in the Mini's distributor that grounds the rotating plate t; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00399.html (12,065 bytes)
16. Re: How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: "Telewest $PH$" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:31:16 +0100; Only ignition LT problems cause the tach to flick, HT problems don't. If you can reproduce the problem in the driveway then hook up a timing light (12v with inductive pick-up type) to the coil lead a; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00403.html (9,985 bytes)
17. Re: How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: Paul Root <proot@iaces.com>; Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 07:29:53 -0500; As Rocky said, it could be the little ground wire inside the dizzy. Otherwise, I'd be looking at the fuel pump. It sounds like it's having a hard time keeping up. -- ______ / _ \ Paul T. Root <proot@; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00405.html (10,520 bytes)
18. Re: How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: Tab Julius <tab@penworks.com>; Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:14:26 -0400; I'll look. Although I said that if I push the engine (say 3500+ rpms), and I can trigger it starting, and it will continue to plague me for the trip, what I perhaps didn't make clear is that it will; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00408.html (10,095 bytes)
19. Re: How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: Paul Root <proot@iaces.com>; Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:31:49 -0500; Well, the thing to do when it happens is pull off the road and check how much fuel is coming out of the fuel line right at the front carb. And, if you have HS types, pop the tops off the float bowls; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00410.html (11,481 bytes)
20. Re: How to best clean twin SU carbs? (score: 1): Author: Stephen West-Fisher <steve@coastaldatasystems.com>; Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:55:45 -0400; Sounds very much like the little wire in the distributer is broken internally. As the point plate moves in the distributer, the circut will be made and then broken. I've never had this problem in an; /html/mgs/2003-09/msg00412.html (9,881 bytes)

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