Float Gauge comes with a Kit,
Greg in Fla
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> From: tim <lloydt@Colorado.EDU>
> To: Ole Truckers <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Carburetor troubleshooting
> Date: Saturday, March 18, 2000 3:08 AM
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> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, David Krucas wrote:
> > Back to the present. A couple things you might want to do that won't
> > be too expensive would be to rebuild the carb and check the timing. A
> > carb kit has new gaskets and a new needle valve and seat, plus you get
> > to check the condition of your float and see how much gunk is in the
> > bottom of the float bowl. If any, put in an inline fuel filter between
> > the tank and the fuel pump. Altitude doesn't have much to do with it.
> > Mine used to start in the thin air of Lakewood in below zero weather
> > every day just fine. Good luck, and keep us posted.
>
> This is actually getting interesting. I don't have any tools to work on
> the timing, so I took my truck into a shop to get the timing checked.
> They claim to have not touched the carburetor beyond taking off the air
> cleaner and looking down the throat, but somehow the float levels have
> been set way too high (there's fuel squirting out of my gaskets when I
> pump the gas) since I dropped the truck off at the shop. So it looks
like
> I will be getting a carb kit (hopefully NAPA has one in stock or nearby)
> and rebuilding the carb after all.
>
> My shop manual shows the float level being checked with a float level
> gauge; do I actually need one of these, or is the carb kit pretty much
all
> I'll need?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim Lloyd, omaha@tmbg.org
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