[T3] Crabby carbs

Brian Fye bfye at canyonville.net
Tue Aug 9 18:41:38 PDT 2011


You will need to evap it out.  I use rubbing alky... Cheap and cheap!
About 1/2 bottle into the tank

On 8/9/11, Keith Park <topnotch at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> Hmmm, that's possible, that tank has been nearly empty or half full
> recently.  Wouldn't that eventually pass though?  How long would you think
> Id need to run it to get the water worked out?  Ive kept it running for a
> few minutes but it never gets better and always stalls out if I let the RPM
> get too low.
>
> Thanks
>
> Keith
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [T3] Crabby carbs
>
> 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
>>
>>
>> Top Notch Restorations
>> topnotch at nycap.rr.com
>> http://www.a383ina68.addr.com/radiorest/main.htm
>> 71 Squareback "Hothe"
>> 65 Notchback "El Baja Rojo"
>> 65 Squareback "Eggcrate"
>> 87 golf "Winterat"
>> 93 RX7 "Redstur"
>>
>>
>>
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