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RE: Car! won't start

To: S1500@aol.com, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Car! won't start
From: "Richard Ceraldi-ERC004" <Richard_Ceraldi-ERC004@email.mot.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 9:07:37 -0500
X400-mts-identifier: [ /P=MOT/A=MOT/C=US/ ; m\il02n\960911090737c ]
Bob wrote:
>I've got a manual choke ZS on the car and it won't start.
>Fuel is dripping from the carb throat.  Too rich perhaps ;-)
>I suspected float level, and it was off quite a bit so I adjusted it.
>Foolishly I didn't check the needle valve while I was in there. 
>I'm getting ready to remove & disassemble the carb (again).
>Is there anything else in the carb that might cause this condition?

Bob,     
   When one of my carbs started leaking like that I replaced the valve that 
the float bumps into and it quit overflowing. You can unscrew it and inspect 
it easily. 
Check it out,
Richard Ceraldi
71 GT6 MKIII KF166L

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