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Re: Leaky Carb Problem Over - New Ones Begin

To: Philip Hubbard <phubbard@carroll.com>
Subject: Re: Leaky Carb Problem Over - New Ones Begin
From: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 20:59:19 -0400
Philip Hubbard wrote:
> Testing out the reinstalled carbs I started seeing smoke and smelling that
> smell.  Idiot that I am, in working with the carbs a lot of the dashpot oil
> leaked out and I was running without much oil.  Please, please someone tell
> me that the approximately 20 seconds I ran the car like that hasn't sealed
> my doom.  If it has, well, it has.  I'll have to bite the bullet.  But I
> hope to all the Gods I haven't completely ruined the carbs.

  The oil in the carbs is not for lubrication, you can probably
run the car forever without it.

  If the oil was not there the car will probably hesitate on
acceleration,
that's about it. No worries.

-- 
Trevor Boicey, Ottawa, Canada.
tboicey@brit.ca, http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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