[Roadsters] Solex troubles

[David Patten]

Daniel 
Todd Walrich was a great friend of mine. Todd and I raced together for years and shared a very similar philosophy on both business and life. 

With Todd's passing and the blessing of his wife Suzie FutoFab acquired the business assets of Wolf Creek Racing and is carrying on with the sale and service of Mikuni PHH carburetor parts. 

The transaction occurred late last Fall. We have finally sorted thru the inventory to the point where we now have a good record of the parts we have on hand and we are just starting to offer carburetor service work. 

As for your run problems, there is definitely a blockage that is not letting enough fuel thru to keep the car running without the choke. With today's fuel, the problem comes from the ethanol. Even a few months sitting allows it to raise havoc with fuel systems especially carburetors. Any seasonal use gasoline engine should be using a fuel stabilizer. 

One of our local motorcycle dealers has been an advocate for Star Tron fuel stabilizer. It supposedly contains an enzyme that eats the ethanol. They swear by it for motorcycles. The service manager told me they he had a customer with run problems after winter storage of his EFI Honda motorcycle. After 2-3 fill-ups with the Star Tron additive in the gas it cleared up his run problems without any other service being needed. 

Give that a try and see if it helps. 
And if you want to get into the carbs, we have complete rebuild kits in stock for late model PHH Mikuni carbs as well as some parts for the earlier carbs. If we can be of any service to you please feel free to contact us. 

Dave Patten, Owner 

FutoFab, LLC 
199 Stark Hwy So 
Dunbarton, NH 03046-4411 

www.FutoFab.com 
email - FutoFab at gsinet.net 
Telephone - (603) 774-6964 
Facebook - FutoFab LLC 



From: "Datsun Roadster List" <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net> 
To: "Gary and Ault" <aultgc at att.net>, "Datsun Roadster List" <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net>, "Daniel Heinze" <dth104 at psu.edu> 
Sent: Saturday, March 5, 2016 10:49:38 PM 
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Solex troubles 

Wolf Creek Racing is no longer there. Todd Walrich passed away. 
It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Todd Walrich on July, 29th 2015. 

Stan 
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At 07:09 PM 3/5/2016, Gary and Cindy Ault via Datsun-roadsters wrote: 


Daniel, 

Contact Wolf Creek Racing. I believe they are the US distributor for Mikuni carburetors (mostly motorcycle business these days), but they do service Mikuni/Solex carbs. 

Gary 

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On Sat, 3/5/16, Daniel Heinze via Datsun-roadsters <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net> wrote: 

Subject: [Roadsters] Solex troubles 
To: "'Datsun Roadster List'" <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net> 
Date: Saturday, March 5, 2016, 9:04 PM 

Any suggestions on what would 
cause a Solex (late style with only a couple thousand miles 
on them) to run fine on full choke, but be unable to stay 
running with the choke off? I figure something may be 
blocked. For reasons beyond my control the car 
received almost no use for a couple years. When 
started occasionally it ran fine until this month. Â I 
siphoned out the old fuel and refilled with new gas plus 
some dry gas to be sure. I blew out the fuel line, replaced 
the fuel filter, and removed the carbs and cleaned the jets, 
etc. The one thing I didn’t remove is the float 
bowl cover because it was stuck and I didn’t want to 
ruin the gaskets unless I had replacements in hand.The engine has only a few 
thousand miles on a complete rebuild. Any suggestions will be 
greatly appreciated.Thanks / Dan’68 Solex 
2000 
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