Phil,
The float/needle valve sticking is a very common problem. Usually you can
tap
The top of the float bowl with a screwdriver handle and free a sticking
needle
valve.
As to your carbs, if memory serves me, on the float bowl top, there is an
input
Tube to connect the fuel line to. There is a vent hole over top of this
input tube
And there usually is a small metal shield that rests on the input tube that
"hides"
This vent hole.
I agree, I think that these vents should have a tube on them so you can
attach a
Flex line and route this overflow fuel safely away from the manifold and
exhaust
Pipe.
The Stromberg on the Spit is really crazy. A plastic plug in the bottom of
the float
Bowl with the carb mounted right over the catalytic converter!!!
John
John T. Blair
jblair@scn.spawar.navy.mil
SPAWARSYSCEN Chesapeake jblair@exis.net <mailto:jblair@exis.net>
(home)
Chesapeake, VA (757) 523-8133
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Roettjer [SMTP:Phil.Roettjer@quantum.com]
Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 11:14 AM
To: 'morgans@autox.team.net'
Subject: HS6 Floats
... I took my wife for an evening drive
yesterday and wouldn't you know it the front carb float bowl started
leaking. It was leaking bad enough that I just shut down the
car.....
I do have a question for the group.....
... These carbs do not have any visible overflow lines, but gas was
coming
out all over the top and it was hard to tell where it was coming
from. Do they
have a breather hole in the top to allow air to enter (and gas to
escape if the
shut-off valve sticks)? I have to admit I like the old system better
since you
could rout the overflow lines away from exhaust and electrical
contacts.
Phil Roettjer
67 +4
67 MGB
P.S. I installed a split brake master system per Fred Sisson's book
and the
brakes work great. In addition to installing the new master system I
also
rebuilt both front a rear brakes while I had it down last winter. I
am very
pleased with this conversion and recommend it highly.
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