[T3] Crabby carbs

[Brian Fye]

i think you are getting condensation in the tank and when it sits you end up
with water dropplets moving reward to the carbs and it then runs like crap.

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Keith Park <topnotch at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> OK carb guru's. have had the stock solex's on the crate apart more times
> than I can count, super clean inside and every part of them has been gone
> thru but if I let that car sit more than a couple weeks when I go to run it
> again it will stall below 2500 RPM if I don't keep pumping the gas and
> above
> that it runs rough (unloaded).  Its like the idle jets are all plugged up
> but on BOTH carbs??  I pull the top off the shoot choke cleaner down every
> passage I can get to and it runs fine, till it sits for a couple weeks
> again..  Any ideas?  I know it needs to get out on the open road but that's
> still while off and Im getting tired of pulling the carbs apart so often
> just to keep it going.
>
> I AM running a fuel filter just ahead of the pump too, in case there is any
> loose dirt in the fuel lines to the engine.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Keith
>
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