bobchamb@southwind.net wrote:
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> Was just looking through my parts bin(junk pile) and came across an old
> dirty carb set up. It is an SU with 1.25 throats. Everything looked familiar
> but the back float bowl had two pipes coming out of it. One is to feed the
> fuel ,and the other is-----------?????
Sounds like the carbs for my 1970B.
Those are indeed vents, they connect to a breather system on later
cars, or on early cars like mine, to pipes that dump the fuel safely
below the hot exhaust manifold.
> Was this a part of a fuel vent
> system for emmisions on later cars? Also there is a good sized brass pipe
> going into the throat just in front of the butterfly. Both carbs have this
> and I suppose it is a vacume source, ---but for what? Bob C in KS
Part of the breathing system on the same MGB, on my B they are joined
to a T to a hose that disappears under the manifolds and connects...
well...
I don't know where. ;>
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Trevor Boicey
Ottawa, Canada
tboicey@brit.ca
http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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