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Re: [TR] Webers on my TR4

To: "TeriAnn J. Wakeman" <tjwakeman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [TR] Webers on my TR4
From: "Lee&John Howard" <leejohn7@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 06:50:06 -0700
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Now there's a horrible thought! I'll take a look; guess I can roughly test
by simply grasping the carbs and wiggling them about.


On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:39 AM, TeriAnn J. Wakeman <tjwakeman@gmail.com>wrote:

> Any chance that your pulling on fuel lines might have broken the soft
> mount seal on the carb to intake manifold connection and you are getting an
> air leak  at the base of the carbs?
>
> armchair diagnosis is a matter of WAGs.
>
>
>
> On 7/17/12 4:55 PM, Lee&John Howard wrote:
>
>> Good ideas.
>> I never added the fuel pressure gauge because, well, it was working fine
>> without it!
>>
> .
> As long as everything works a inline fuel pressure gauge is pretty
> useless.  But the second you have a problem with the engine running it can
> tell you that your fuel system down stream of the carb is working OK, has a
> problem or maybe you should walk to the nearest gas station with an empty
> container.  A fuel gauge can be a big diagnosis time saver.
>
> TeriAnn

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