[Roadsters] Solex troubles

[hrhaslett at yahoo.com]

Considering this is a recent issue I would think your floats are sunk.


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From: Daniel Heinze via Datsun-roadsters <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net> 
Date: 03/05/2016  7:04 PM  (GMT-08:00) 
To: 'Datsun Roadster List' <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net> 
Subject: [Roadsters] Solex troubles 
 
Any suggestions on what would cause a Solex (late style with only a couple thousand miles on them) to run fine on full choke, but be unable to stay running with the choke off?  I figure something may be blocked.  For reasons beyond my control the car received almost no use for a couple years.  When started occasionally it ran fine until this month.  I siphoned out the old fuel and refilled with new gas plus some dry gas to be sure. I blew out the fuel line, replaced the fuel filter, and removed the carbs and cleaned the jets, etc.  The one thing I didn’t remove is the float bowl cover because it was stuck and I didn’t want to ruin the gaskets unless I had replacements in hand.
The engine has only a few thousand miles on a complete rebuild. 
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks / Dan
’68 Solex 2000
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