As you may recall, last weekend I posted a problem of loss of power at full
throttle. The key element being that the problem would heal - correct itself
- and only occur every 3 months or so.
I received many suggestions, some of which I had to pass on because they would
not lend themselves to "healing." I did get a suggestion from Fred Thomas,
thanx Fred, to check my floats for hanging up. Evidently his Ford model A
club has had problems with current gas formulations.
Well, I pulled the carbs today. The floats were not hanging up, but then the
car in in remission. But when the float bowls dried, at the bottom was a
brown powderish coating, that was not visible when the bowls had fuel in them
or were still damp with fuel. I cleaned it out with carb cleaner spray and
cleaned the float pivots in a similar fashion. Maybe this "powder" was
building on the pivots and occasionally hanging them up? then a vibration or
something freeing them.
Anyway, I'll keep you posted on future developments.
Peter Arakelian - 1971 TR6
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