[Tigers] "POS" carb

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Steve,
That could make sense.  If the float was stuck  open the pressure in the 
line could flood the carb even with the car  parked.
M
 
 
In a message dated 7/16/2010 10:06:33 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
slaifman at socal.rr.com writes:

Allan,

Do you think, maybe, that it is the SU fuel pump  causing your symptoms?

If the ignition were cutting out, my father's  solution to everything 
electrical was "it must be a loose wire"  

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Steve

Steve  Laifman

Editor

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Allan  Ballard wrote:
> I m sorting my stock  MK1a Tiger, trying to get it  back on the streets 
after ~
> 3 decades of storage in a  barn.
>
> Current focus is on carburation.
>
> It has  a remanufactured Holly to replace a worn-out Motorcraft 2-bbl.
>
>  Recently it was running pretty good but after I parked it to eat supper 
at  a
> restaurant recently, upon return to the car it would not start.  It
> looked flooded; I looked down the throat and saw aboutS a half inch  of 
bubbly
> gas in the
> bottom of the carb.
>
>  Subsequently shop guys replaced the choke spring mechanism, pronounced  
the
> carb to be  cured but 6 miles later in Atlanta traffic  it
> died with the same symptoms.  It acted as it was out of gas  then died and
> would not re-start.
>
> I pushed it to the  side of the road, popped the hood and looked down the
> carb--another a  pool of bubbly gas down there
> and no way it would  start.
>
> About 90 minutes later the tow truck arrived and the  Sunbeam ranked so I 
drove
> it onto the flatbed truck.
>
>  Does this make any sense to any one?
>
> Is there any way the coil  could overheat and cause this--or do I have a 
POS
>  carb?
>
> Allan
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