[T3] Weber Carb update

[Maximilian Bukszpan]

Hi,  I had the same problem on my 67 Bus Camper with the orig. Solex 30 PICT!! The gas line with the fitting where you push over the gas line moved out of the carb!!I nearly lost my bus!!!
So, now, on all my VW's, I secure the gasline to stay complete in the carburetor with a piece of wire, means I bend around the clamp to hold the gasline on the carb fitting and then as a counterpart I bend the same wire somewhere to the carb housing to secure it!!
Thats it!! Safe!!!!!
Max

> From: jimmyandcher at yahoo.com
> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:01:26 -0700
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
> Subject: [T3] Weber Carb update
> 
>   False alarm.... somewhat. Just disconnected the fuel lines from the  
> carbs (had to remove the entire carb linkage/air cleaner assemblies  
> just to access the hose clamps on the fuel lines). The fittings in  
> the carbs are NOT loose, the fuel hoses are simply loose on the  
> fittings, and no amount of tightening (or overtightening for that  
> matter) of the hose clamps will secure them. I still have fuel  
> seeping through at the connections. I just replaced these fuel lines  
> a few months ago with the highest quality hose I could get. The  
> fittings on the carbs are the type that have one rounded "barb" at  
> the end of the fitting. I don't have much experience with these, I am  
> mostly accustomed to the barbed fittings that I've had on numerous  
> Solex carbs over the years, where once the hose is attached, you  
> nearly have to cut it off to ever remove it. Should I be having this  
> problem? I guess I have to replace the fuel lines to the carbs again,  
> I didn't really leave enough slack to cut off the ends and reconnect.  
> Is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening again?
> 
> Also, still related to the Weber carbs: The last couple of times I've  
> had it running in the garage, within just a few minutes of running, a  
> lot of moisture is forming around the driver side carb, mostly near  
> the base it appears. When I first saw this, I thought I had a fuel  
> leak somewhere, but it is apparently water.... quite a bit of it....  
> enough to be running down the intake manifold after 5 minutes of  
> running. What could this mean? Is something happening to cause a lot  
> of condensation to form on the outside of that one carb?
> 
> BTW, the car seems to idle better than it has in some time, now that  
> I have Jim Adney's plug wire set on board. Now, if I could just get  
> fuel to stop spraying all over the place, I might actually get to  
> drive it!
> 
> On Jul 11, 2012, at 7:40 PM, Jim Adney wrote:
> 
> > On 11 Jul 2012 at 19:05, James Lingenfelter wrote:
> >
> >> I have never rebuilt a Weber carb, and don't recall having one of
> >> those fuel hose fittings out of the carb, so forgive my ignorance on
> >> this subject; so originally these fittings are simply force fit into
> >> the carb, with smooth surfaces all around, with no type of adhesive,
> >> and expected to stay in? That seems a little insane and dangerous to
> >> me. It's one thing on a vacuum fitting, but on a fuel line fitting
> >> where looseness could result in disaster, it just seems silly.
> >
> > I'm not sure whether they were press fit or cast in place. My money
> > would be on the former. At any rate, it worked for well beyond the
> > design lifetime, so it's not surprising that some of them
> > occasionally come loose after 40 years.
> >
> > Even now, most of them are fine until excess stress is applied to the
> > fitting. Sometimes this is the weight of a fuel filter and sometimes
> > it's careless tightening of a hose clamp.
> >
> > -- 
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> > Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
> > Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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