[TR] Webers on my TR4

[Lee&John Howard]

Well, friends - it was the condenser! Thank you  TeriAnn.
Well at least I know now the pump is good, and the Webers good and clean.
And reacquainted myself with the jets etc.

Thanks for everyone's help.

John

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:09 AM, TeriAnn J. Wakeman <tjwakeman at gmail.com>wrote:

>  On 7/18/12 6:50 AM, Lee&John Howard wrote:
>
> Now there's a horrible thought! I'll take a look; guess I can roughly test
> by simply grasping the carbs and wiggling them about.
>
>
> A rough test would usually be spraying something non flammable on the seal
> area to see if the idle settles down while the liquid is blocking any gap.
> The soft mounts are supposed to allow slight movement of the carbs.
>
> How old are your soft mounts?  The rubber seals can crack over time and
> repeated heatings.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:39 AM, TeriAnn J. Wakeman <tjwakeman at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Any chance that your pulling on fuel lines might have broken the soft
>> mount seal on the carb to intake manifold connection and you are getting an
>> air leak  at the base of the carbs?
>>
>> armchair diagnosis is a matter of WAGs.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/17/12 4:55 PM, Lee&John Howard wrote:
>>
>>> Good ideas.
>>> I never added the fuel pressure gauge because, well, it was working fine
>>> without it!
>>>
>>  .
>> As long as everything works a inline fuel pressure gauge is pretty
>> useless.  But the second you have a problem with the engine running it can
>> tell you that your fuel system down stream of the carb is working OK, has a
>> problem or maybe you should walk to the nearest gas station with an empty
>> container.  A fuel gauge can be a big diagnosis time saver.
>>
>> TeriAnn