looks like Paul H. just answered your question about pulling it apart.
Just remove any hoses attached to the float chamber lid, remove
the three screws on top and you can lift the lid right off.
Is could be as simple as just blowing though the fuel feed pipe to
clear the needle valve (if the float is OK). On a new/rebuild
it's is simply possible a tiny bit of crap is stuck in the needle valve.
Paul Tegler
ptegler@cablespeed.com
www.teglerizer.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul M." <rowman22001@yahoo.com>
To: <ptegler@cablespeed.com>; <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: SU float bowls flooding
> --- ptegler@cablespeed.com wrote:
> > Your float chamber needle valve is stuck
> > and the float is not rising to close the valve
> > (works just like a toilet shutoff)
>
> Thanks, I'll check it out. Can I pull that float
> chamber apart without removing anything else? Is
> there anything tricky in the procedure? Anything in
> particular that I'll be looking for?
>
> > At $750 you got ripped off royally!
> > You can buy brand new HS4's for that price.
>
> Yes, which is why I never want to go back to that
> place again. Believe it or not, I took the car into
> the shop because I could not figure out why the car
> was running slightly rich. They are an MG specialty
> shop, and I figured they would be able to get to the
> bottom of it quickly. Four days later, when I went in
> to pick the car up, they had fully rebuilt both carbs
> even though I had not approved that work, and they
> presented me with a bill for over $1400.
>
> I'm not joking. $1400 and change. I could have
> bought a set of HS6's for that price, plus a light
> flywheel and a Peco header.
>
> After my heart restarted, I had to spend an hour
> fighting with them to release the car. In retrospect
> I should have refused to give them even a penny, but I
> was so strung out I finally settled on $750 and just
> chalked it up to experience. But it still pisses me
> off to think about it...
>
> =====
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