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1. SU float bowls flooding (score: 1): Author: "Paul M." <rowman22001@yahoo.com>; Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 08:08:37 -0700 (PDT); I know this has been talked about ad nauseum, but the archives are so packed with SU entries I can't find the answer I'm looking for: I have a 1971 MGB with HS4 carbs. The carbs were "professionally; /html/mgs/2004-07/msg00197.html (8,176 bytes)
2. Re: SU float bowls flooding (score: 1): Author: <ptegler@cablespeed.com>; Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:35:03 -0400; Your float chamber needle valve is stuck and the float is not rising to close the valve (works just like a toilet shutoff) At $750 you got ripped off royally! You can buy brand new HS4's for that pri; /html/mgs/2004-07/msg00198.html (8,944 bytes)
3. Re: SU float bowls flooding (score: 1): Author: "Paul M." <rowman22001@yahoo.com>; Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 08:56:45 -0700 (PDT); Thanks, I'll check it out. Can I pull that float chamber apart without removing anything else? Is there anything tricky in the procedure? Anything in particular that I'll be looking for? Yes, which i; /html/mgs/2004-07/msg00199.html (9,149 bytes)
4. Re: SU float bowls flooding (score: 1): Author: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:56:52 +0100; Either debris in the float valve or a faulty valve preventing it from fully closing, or a punctured float which is full of fuel and now won't - float that is. The first can often be cleared by discon; /html/mgs/2004-07/msg00201.html (9,359 bytes)
5. Re: SU float bowls flooding (score: 1): Author: MGBnutt@aol.com; Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:12:46 EDT; And just what shop was this? Perhaps you can/should warn the rest of us by being more specific... Donny V 78 MGB; /html/mgs/2004-07/msg00202.html (7,808 bytes)
6. Re: SU float bowls flooding (score: 1): Author: <ptegler@cablespeed.com>; Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:20:34 -0400; looks like Paul H. just answered your question about pulling it apart. Just remove any hoses attached to the float chamber lid, remove the three screws on top and you can lift the lid right off. Is c; /html/mgs/2004-07/msg00203.html (10,781 bytes)
7. Re: SU float bowls flooding (score: 1): Author: "Paul M." <rowman22001@yahoo.com>; Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:49:44 -0700 (PDT); The shop is called "My MG Import Shop", on Statesville Road in Charlotte, NC. I notice they are listed on a lot of the "MG Repair Shop" lists I see on the internet, so beware. The place is full of ol; /html/mgs/2004-07/msg00205.html (8,783 bytes)
8. Re: SU float bowls flooding (score: 1): Author: "Larry Daniels" <ladaniels@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:51:48 -0500; Yes, which is why I never want to go back to that place again. Believe it or not, I took the car into the shop because I could not figure out why the car was running slightly rich. They are an MG sp; /html/mgs/2004-07/msg00206.html (9,469 bytes)
9. Re: SU float bowls flooding (score: 1): Author: "Paul M." <rowman22001@yahoo.com>; Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:16:19 -0700 (PDT); I love this idea. Because I've had a lot of good experiences too, especially with eBay sellers. And I'm dying to find a good shop in the greater Charlotte area. Maybe not even an MG specialty place,; /html/mgs/2004-07/msg00207.html (8,847 bytes)
10. Re: SU float bowls flooding (score: 1): Author: Paul Root <ptroot@iaces.com>; Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:03:31 -0500; Definately a place to avoid. That's not a hard job. It's just time. And if you replace all the parts, you wouldn't spend that much. I agree with you, you shouldn't have had to pay $750, since you did; /html/mgs/2004-07/msg00212.html (9,602 bytes)
11. Re: SU float bowls flooding (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>; Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:45:54 -0700; You can remove the float chamber lid with the carb on the car; without even removing the air cleaner, if you are lazy. Once you get it out you will see how incredibly simple it is. Either shaking it; /html/mgs/2004-07/msg00216.html (10,598 bytes)
12. Re: SU float bowls flooding (score: 1): Author: "Larry Daniels" <ladaniels@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:41:47 -0500; This deal is still sticking in my craw. If this shop owner didn't know that he was nailing your butt, he would never have dropped the other $650 -- he would have put a mechanics lien on it and told; /html/mgs/2004-07/msg00218.html (8,831 bytes)
13. Re: SU float bowls flooding (score: 1): Author: "Paul M." <rowman22001@yahoo.com>; Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:12:48 -0700 (PDT); Thanks to all for help with the float bowl. I'm not sure exactly what the problem was, but I took the cover off, sprayed an ocean of carb cleaner in the bowl, checked that the float was moving freely; /html/mgs/2004-07/msg00219.html (8,208 bytes)
14. Re: SU float bowls flooding (score: 1): Author: Barrie Robinson <barrie@look.ca>; Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:30:06 -0700; No no no no. How can anybody quote such a stupid price. I would go in and tell them what idiots they are and that by virtue of the authority of the 'list' - lots of MG people will know of their gougi; /html/mgs/2004-07/msg00252.html (9,564 bytes)
15. Re: SU float bowls flooding (score: 1): Author: "MonteMorris" <mmorris@nemr.net>; Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:51:14 -0500; FWIW, in the rebuild kit I used I could not get one plastic valve to seal until I went back to the old, metal valve. Monte fully and only again a easy is the float For; /html/mgs/2004-07/msg00269.html (9,903 bytes)
16. Re: SU float bowls flooding (score: 1): Author: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:04:53 +0100; Ah, Hunt's Fifth Law.; /html/mgs/2004-07/msg00278.html (7,883 bytes)

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