stop using chinese gaskets.
On 3/4/07, Frank Clarici <spritenut@comcast.net> wrote:
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> I am giving up. Anybody got a DCOE in trade for about a 1/2 dozen pairs
> of SU-ck carbs?
> 3 different carb bodys, 4 different float lids, 4 new needles and seat,
> and 100 combinations of gross jets, old needles, NOS needles, new
> needles and lids.
> It still leaks.
> I even stuck a pressure regulator on it and have it down to 1 pound.
> It still leaks but at least it doesn't squirt over the radiator now.
> There is no reason for the leak and no cure.
> It is coming out of the overflow on all lids, early lids, later lids
> with the pipe to charcoal can tube, old lids, even a new SU in a box
> lid, they all leak.
> I have bent the float tabs to the max, no change, it's fine for 2
> minutes and then it starts to weep and finally pour out.
> Never at an idle, never with just the key on, only when I rev it up.
> At first I thought it was the tab on the carb body that locks the float
> bowl in place, it was missing or sheered off. So new body, correct
> rubber grommet for the offset, same problem.
> Even a known good carb leaks only on this 58.
> So much for my original Sprite, I have had enough of SUs, I can't stand
> the whimpy stock shifter, the steering wheel is great if you like
> steering with your knees, and a tach drive generator might have been OK
> back in 1958 but an alternator doesn't make nearly as much noise.
> --
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
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