> I agree, but I've never been sure about the practicality of this
> overflow! It seems to me that if one of my carbs overflow, this fuel is
> not going to be somehow sucked into the air intake, but instead is going
> to drip straight down onto the exhaust manifold and create one hell of a
> fire!
This happened to me. It did not catch fire (but scared the bejesus out of
me)
I put a rag under the float so that the fuel wouldn't stay close to the
hot manifold. This was in a parking lot right after my first "long" run
with the TR4! I'm sure a little chunk of rust or goop made the float bowl
stick.
Nothing of the sort has happened since; however, I have had the tank
cleaned out and kept the float bowls in good shape.
I would really like to switch to Grose jets, but first I need to replace
one float (it's got a bit of a crack in it; I've patched it but I think
it's riding low & causing a rich mixture)
Might try my hand at small-scale soldering. Not looking forward to such a
prospect though. (especially on something that might have trace amounts
of gasoline in it!!)
For now the overflows have been routed away from the manifolds. Just wish
I had more money; the college is demanding many hundreds of dollars of me
though, and they come first :-(
-Malcolm
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