Message text written by Graham McMicken
>I was recently fiddling with my throttle linkage to get full travel
when I came across a leak from the carbs. The problem
is they are constantly leaking from the bottom, should this be?
It is leaking from the circular button on the bottom. They arn't tight,
I can turn them, but they are not threaded. This is the cause for my
garage always smelling like gas, and near a gas hot water heater, well
you can see why I want to fix it :)
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Yes it is. The hole in the float bowl was origianlly for the jet adjuster
but the later model carbs have fixed jets and there is no longer a need for
this hole. It was retained anyway (tooling costs money) and the early TR6
carbs had a screw-in plug and the later ones had the snap-in plug you have.
These are sealed with an O-ring (commonly included in carb rebuild kits).
You can pop the plug out with a small screw driver working from side to
side to ensure it comes out straight, change out the O-ring and pop it back
in.
A longer term solution is to find some Z-S carbs in the yard from a late
model MGB or TR7/TR8 which has a float bowl without the cast in hole and
fix it for good.
Cheers
Dave Massey
57 TR3
71 TR6
80 TR8
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