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Re: Carb help

To: Bricklin@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Carb help
From: "John T. Blair" <jblair@exis.net>
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 16:56:12 -0500
At 07:17 PM 11/8/99 PST, you wrote:
>I have an unmolested 74 and want to get it to pass California smog. The 
>hydrocarbons are high and I noticed that when I look down the throat of the 
>carb and pump the carb (in other words pump the accelerator pump), raw gas 
>kind of shoots straight up in the center and into the throats right above 
>where the accelerator jets are (besides coming out of the jets like it is 
>supposed to).  It is almost like there is an unintended hole there -- I 
>don't think that it is normal cause the gas shoots up and sort of dribbles 
>down one side and the other, without it really being measured.  Anyone know 
>if this is correct.  If need be, I can send a digital picture to show it 
>more clearly. 

Kim,

  I'm pretty sure I know what you're talking about.  My friends 74 did the 
same thing.  I rebuilt the carb, and it still did it.  It was like there 
was a hole one of the tubes in the carb that was supposed to be plugged and
wasn't.  

  He finally sent it to a local carb shop, when he got it back, it was fine.
Don't know what they did, but it doesn't shoot gas streight up out of the 
carb any more.

John

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