Philip Hubbard wrote:
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> Hello Gang,
Philip
Congrats on the wedding.
Now on to the carbs....
Do you have a propane torch? If so, get some 50/50 solder for pipes and
a small can/tube of flux.
Steel wool the throttle plates clean, smear with flux, heat the brass
with the torch and torch the solder to the brass letting the heated
brass melt the solder. Not the torch. This makes the solder flow and
fill the holes. When finished, file any excess smooth with a file. Be
carful not to file the edge of the throttle plate.
Be sure both sides of the plates are soldered and filed smooth.
Your idle problem may have been a slightly offset throttle plate. Or you
put it in backwards. Look carfully at it, it is tapered and should close
fully and with a click when you snap the throttle closed. Be sure to use
loctite on the screws or new screws if your old ones can no longer be
bent to keep them locked in.
On the float tube leak, take it apart, there is a flat brass washer and
an "O" ring over a small olive in the plastic tube. These "olives (as
the Brits call em)
can be reflared with a little finess and a small punch. A new "O" ring
from any hardware store helps too.
Good luck
--
Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ
Too many Sprites (again)
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
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