List,
It's been a while. I've been busy with other things and now I'm about
2,500 messages behind. :-(
Anyway, I had the opportunity to take out my TR3A today. It ran great, but
soon started to reek of fuel. Upon opening the bonnet, I noticed a stream
of fuel coming from the overflow tube on the front H6 carb, which turned
out to be caused by a leaking brass float. Here are some pictures:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekieboom/float/
As you can see, it's full of hairline cracks. There are at least a dozen
all along its circumfence and two of them go right across the joint.
A therapeutic session with a hairdryer leaves me with an empty, but still
leaky float. So here are the questions:
Is it common for floats to fail like this?
Could I have any luck soldering all those cracks up? I have a big 250W
electric iron with which I've managed to fix a steel fuel tank in the
past, but I'm no soldering artist. Perhaps heat it up a bit and roll it in
a bath of solder? I dunno - I'd be very grateful for any ideas from those
that have been there and done that.
Eric
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'57 TR3A TS23315L
'76 Spit FH88257L
http://triumphspitfire.nl/
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