If it's brass, get a sharp punch and make little dimples around it's
circumference, then press it in.. should work well. Oh yeah, don't
hit it so hard that it is no longer round.. ;-)
Lester
On Jun 8, 2008, at 2:29 PM, rrengineer@dslextreme.com wrote:
> I have my 1275 running great at the moment with one little problem
> that is
> driving me nuts, if you'll pardon the pun. The vacuum tap fitting
> on the
> HIF44 carb is only a friction fit into small hole in the carb body
> behind
> the piston chamber. I have a plastic vacuum line connected with
> push-on
> rubber end fittings that works fine except the little metal nipple
> fitting
> on the carb keeps falling out. At first it stayed in O.K., after a
> while
> it would come out of the hole and I would have to push it back in.
> Now
> the thing is no longer tight in the hole and will not stay in. Any
> ideas
> on how to make it stay put? Epoxy? J&B Weld?
> Mike MacLean
> 60 Sprite
> 56 BN2
> ________
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