Check or replace your needle valve in the float chamber.
Dave Formstone
1960 Bugeye
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From: chasdoug@gte.net[SMTP:chasdoug@gte.net]
Sent: June 28, 1998 21:10 PM
To: spridgets
Subject: SU Carb -- Float Leaking
The rear float of my HS2's is leaking on occasion. Actually, leaking is
an understatement. It's pumping out significant quantities of gas --
ooops -- petrol.
If I take the lid off and fiddle with the gasket and put the lid back
on, it seems to dry up for awhile, but it starts dumping again
eventually. Or, if I remove the gas line and reconnect it, it sometimes
goes away for awhile.
Since I'm not really fixing anything, and since it _looks_ like the gas
is actually coming out of the top (underneath the gas line), I'm
starting to think there must be something else wrong.
Is there some kind of overflow? What causes it to need to overflow? Or
is my gasket technique that bad?
Help?
Chas Douglass -- Seattle WA
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