[Mgs] carb flooding

JAMES F JUHAS james.f.juhas at snet.net
Thu Sep 11 17:39:53 MDT 2008


Dirt in needle valve.  Just had this happen.  Found a piece of flakey stuff in the valve.

Bernd wrote:
> I'm on the road with my 71 B when I noticed that the car was surging, I pulled over and noticed that the HS4 overflow line was spurting gas out of it's line, I took the cover off the float bowls and noticed that the front carb's  float bowl was half full of gasoline and the rear carb's bowl was full of gas to the point of overflowing, I checked the needle's in the float bowl the seemed free, I checked the float they moved freely, I replaced everything and the car seems to be running fine again, any suggestions or comments?
> 71 MGB currently in the mountains of North Caroline
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