-----Original Message-----
From: Vince De Palma <greenery@gte.net>
To: fot-digest@autox.team <fot-digest@autox.team>; kaskas@earthlink.net
<kaskas@earthlink.net>
Date: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 8:05 PM
Subject: Spitfire with Weber Problem-Round 2, Solution?
>Thanks, Kas for all your help at the British Car Extravaganza at
>Buttonwillow. You remember, I'm the guy with the yellow Spitfire which was
>missing on left hand corners. I think we found the source of the probem
>after it got much worse, i.e. fuel was running out of the carb throats. We
>found a leaky float and tried to fix it with epoxy. It worked for a lap or
>two but then began sputtering as bad as ever. I didn't think epoxy was
>affected by gasoline. Still need to tear down the carb (again!) to see
what
>happened to our trackside repair. Anyway, a new float will be purchased.
>Thanks, again
>Vince De Palma
>VARA Spitfire #73
>
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