steve babe!
float level way too high!!!!!!
that will leave you on the edge of wetness. drop your float level and you
will relieve the excess fuel bleeding off out into the venturi problem.
chuck.
----- Original Message -----
From Steven Fooshee <sfooshee at home.com>
To: spridgets team <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 10:16 PM
Subject: Carb Jets
> I have gasoline collecting on the bottom of the jets on my stock SUs (Mk
IV
> Sprite). I replaced the rear dashpot from a parts carb I was given, it had
> frozen/siezed and gave symptoms of an intake leak. Then I left the car at
home
> for a few months when I moved for school and had them serviced by the
local Brit
> car guy before I drove it to my new home this holiday weekend. After I
adjusted
> the timing so I could even see the timing mark (it was advanced above the
> steering rack), I still smelled fumes. A terribly short investigation
concluded
> when I found the jets wet. I ran them in a full turn each (it was also
> criminally rich) and it runs better, maybe a touch too lean but better.
> So, what are the leading causes of the gasoline leak, and what's needed
for
> repair? I'm, shall we say, curious since both carbs began leaking at the
same
> time, so I think other than natural forces may be at work.
> --
> ~
> -Amanda Reckinwithe
> '87 RX-7 TII: Hit me, I need paint.
> MCMLXIX Sprite: Hit me, I need paint.
> '90 GS-500E: DO NOT hit me. Though I could use the paint...
> If God dropped acid, would he see people?
>
>
> ~
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