- 1. Flooding Float Bowls - SU (score: 1)
- Author: "Phillips, Frank" <fwp@ufl.edu>
- Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 15:33:50 -0400
- I just completed a SU HS4 rebuild and have a small problem; both float bowls are flooding (pumping fuel out the overflow pipes). The new seats and needles are of the standard type and the new floats
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00345.html (7,264 bytes)
- 2. Re: Flooding Float Bowls - SU (score: 1)
- Author: Philip Schulert <pjschu@usit.net>
- Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 14:53:46 -0700
- Hi Frank You did not happen to change your fuel pump did you . The U.S . pumps use 6+ P.S.I. while U.K. pumps use 3 P.S.I. causing the float bowls to overflow . This can be fixed by replacing pump or
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00348.html (7,744 bytes)
- 3. RE: Flooding Float Bowls - SU (score: 1)
- Author: "Phillips, Frank" <fwp@ufl.edu>
- Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 15:47:44 -0400
- Nope, same fuel pump... It is a US car. Hi Frank You did not happen to change your fuel pump did you . The U.S . pumps use 6+ P.S.I. while U.K. pumps use 3 P.S.I. causing the float bowls to overflow
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00349.html (8,006 bytes)
- 4. Re: Flooding Float Bowls - SU (score: 1)
- Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 14:40:29 -0700
- The rules do apply, in that you want the same clearance spec (I believe 1/8 inch), but you just can't bend the arm on the plastic float to get it (as you found out). The "shims" are really just the l
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00354.html (7,889 bytes)
- 5. Re: Flooding Float Bowls - SU (score: 1)
- Author: paul.hunt1@virgin.net
- Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:16:57 +0100
- Shimming the floats just alters the fuel level in float chamber and jets, the flooding is completely different and a defect, not an adjustment issue. Seeing as it is happening to both and you are usi
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00472.html (8,038 bytes)
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