Originally Posted by
Scott
Oh hell no, I would never use that stuff. And if it needed something like that already some heads would have already rolled.
What is going on here is every time I change the jets in this carb the floats like to stick at first. This is fairly common on these carbs because the floats are notched for the long jet extensions this carb uses and they can easily stick the floats. (Have I lost you efi guys yet ?
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When the floats stick the fuel runs back into the carb which quickly starts flooding the motor.
So what I have done here is slipped hoses over the discharge tubes coming from the bowls/metering plates to catch this extra fuel. This was in lieu of having to jam paper towels down in the carb to catch all this extra fuel until the floats would unstick themselves.
Ghetto but it worked like a champ !
Anyhow there you go.
thats funny! we have the same issue with our CSU carb. hehehe
john changed my jets and instead of bumping the fuel pump he just flipped it on. then he got out of the car to make sure everything was fine and he could hear fluid hitting the ground but saw no signs of it in the engine compartment. until he went to turn the pump off. then he noticed all the gas on the ground, maybe a gallons worth, had poured out of the air filter at the turbo. gas was even trickling out of the bov.
he'll have to keep that in mind next time. hehehe