Are you sure the carbs are not original, or just the floats? The original
style floats are NLA, so everyone winds up using the new style. You can
still set them to 1/8" by using extra washers under the valve.
Anyway, this shouldn't really affect richness. You need to adjust the big
nuts under the carb bodies for that.
on 3/6/01 3:10 AM, Neil Cotty at neilc@apphosting.com wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> My friend has this 64 B and I attempted to tune the carbs last night as it
> is running terribly rich. The DPM ;) installed a different carb with the
> later plastic fixed float.
>
> Now what do I do here? Set the float height on each carb to the same level
> as each other, or to the level they should set to for that type of float?
> The free floating brass float is supposed to have 1/8" clearance and the
> plastic type 11mm. This is what I have them set to now, but I fancy this is
> wrong - ? Ideas?
>
> We are probably going to order a new set of carbs anyway, but it would be
> nice to at least get the car running again.
>
> Cheers,
> Neil
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