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Re: Rich carb

To: "John Macartney" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>, "Triumph Mailing List" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Rich carb
From: "Irv Korey" <emanteno@attglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:28:52 -0600charset="iso-8859-1"
Cc: "David Koszka" <dkoszka@hotmail.com>

-----Original Message-----
From: John Macartney <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>

Listers
Can anyone help out David with his query.

>Sorry but I got the kind of carb wrong. It's a single Zenith Stromberg. On
a
>76 Spitfire (California).I checked the jet for dirt and it's fine.
>I did notice that my catalytic convertor this last time got red hot—it
>glowed! Also the middle part of the exhaust manifold.
>Could my catalytic be partially blocked and causing the hard starting when
>the engine is hot?

A crack in one of the floats caused 1 of my Strombergs to run extremely
rich. No effect on the catalytic converter though.  ;)

Irv Korey
74 TR6 CF22767U
TR4A CT52499 VSCDA Group 2 #58
Highland Park, IL


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