- 1. Sticking carbs (score: 1)
- Author: "Dale Gleason" <inaverysmallroom@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:37:38 -0600
- (1275 74' Midget) Disassmebled my carbs and linkages. Cleaned the works, replaced the gaskets. Two questions.. Am I right to assume that the end of the jet assembly that enters the float bowl just "s
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00049.html (8,499 bytes)
- 2. Re: Sticking carbs (score: 1)
- Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:27:18 -0500
- Unless you just installed the new style jets with the barbed hoses, it is NOT a push on fit. There is a brass washer and O ring or rubber gasket between the float and the tube. Test for leaks by fill
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00052.html (7,630 bytes)
- 3. Re: Sticking carbs (score: 1)
- Author: "Bud Pazur" <bpazur@excel.net>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:03:20 -0600
- So true, so true.. Bud Whitey - 1275 Street Bugeye SilverStreak - 1275 Race Sprite ** "The Buddha... resides as comfortably in the gears of a...transmission as he does in the petals of a flower" - Ro
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00055.html (7,697 bytes)
- 4. Re: Sticking carbs (score: 1)
- Author: "David Lieb" <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:44:59 -0600
- Except of course that Dale has a 1974 Midget and has no need to centralize the jets at all.
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00056.html (7,201 bytes)
- 5. Re: Sticking carbs (score: 1)
- Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:31:28 -0500
- I would do it anyway, I have a pair of swing needle carbs and if you just throw them together, the can stick with the jet way off to one side. -- Frank Clarici Toms River, NJ
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00058.html (7,459 bytes)
- 6. Re: Sticking carbs (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert E. Shlafer" <pilotrob@webtv.net>
- Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:51:53 GMT
- SU's on my PO'd '74 were fixed needle.... and no spring-loaded secondary butterfly ("deceleration") valve, either. :) Cap'n. Bob '60 :{)
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00059.html (7,086 bytes)
- 7. Re: Sticking carbs (score: 1)
- Author: "David Lieb" <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 18:09:52 -0600
- And the carbs on my CO'd 72 are swing needle and no spring-loaded secondary butterfly ("deceleration") valve, either. :) as well as brass floats. What's your point? My point is that if you are going
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00061.html (7,518 bytes)
- 8. Re: Sticking carbs (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert E. Shlafer" <pilotrob@webtv.net>
- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:26:29 GMT
- Fixed vs Swing....I perceive! Anyway, I interpreted his vertical jet problem as one of choke actuation rather than needle/jet interference. Cap'n. Bob '60 :{)
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00064.html (7,084 bytes)
- 9. Re: Sticking carbs (score: 1)
- Author: "David Lieb" <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 19:16:45 -0600
- So did I, especially since most people, even myself, tend not to disassemble the jet-holder mess even when stripping and cleaning the carbs. I think that the choke return springs will make it a noni
- /html/spridgets/2007-02/msg00065.html (7,381 bytes)
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