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Well, I just typed up a huge topic on this and inserted one image. when I hit submit, it siad I couldnt submit more than 8 images and when I went back, the text was all gone....boy does that suck....sorta like the fact that my carb is leaking gas like a seive.
I'm going to try to attach a pic of what the carb base looked like after I pulled the carb but if it dont work, try this http://www.fmtc.com/~wagenmann/Jeep/Joe/Carb.jpg
Anyway, it looks like there was some gas leaking across in between the barrels on that plate...today after I reinstalled my freshly rebuilt carb (rebuilt courtesy of 1BAD401 and his dad who spent the whole day helping me rebuild it (it was over a 320 mile roundtrip to Travis' dad's house where we did it)) i fired it up and the engine was loping real bad...it loped for prolly 20 seconds before the idle smoothed out (I assume that this was while the bowl filled with gas) and when it finally smoothed out...it started dripping gas like a mother out of the front area of the carb.
I am assuming it is a bad hose where the fuel filter connects to the carb, but I am starting to wonder if somwthing else might have contributed.
One of the things we discovered in the rebuild was the the DSPO had cranked the lean/rich knob out so far that the choke was rendered completly inoperable. (Also the needles were frozen in the down position). Is it possible that the PO had cranked that knob down because this carb was overflowing or something? I really couldnt tell where the gas was coming from, but it seemed like it was everywhere quick with the major concentration right at the front near that brass fitting where the fuel line goes intot he carb. I'll replace that on monday and re-teflon the brass fitting's threads, but is it possible that the gas leak is partially coming from under the carb at the junction of the carb body and the intake manifold's base? It seems to me that any gas coming from that area should be pretty dern low in quantity....or is it possible? Anybody got any thoughts on this?
Hopefully what will happen is that monday after doing the hose and the brass fittings, it will be problem - solved, but just in case that doesn't happen, what are some of the crazy things y'all have seen carbs do relating to gas leaks that might help me in my situation? Suggestions?
BTW
I'd like to dedicate this space to a special shoutout to my homie 1BAD401 and to his pa. You two deserve the FSJers of the month award
Don S gets a honorary mention because he offered to help me rebuild the carb too...it was the whole idea of trying to get a gas-y carbuerator on a commecial airline to bring the carb to TX that made that not work out so good....thanks anyway... [img]smile.gif[/img]
[ November 24, 2002, 05:24 PM: Message edited by: jode ]
I'm going to try to attach a pic of what the carb base looked like after I pulled the carb but if it dont work, try this http://www.fmtc.com/~wagenmann/Jeep/Joe/Carb.jpg
Anyway, it looks like there was some gas leaking across in between the barrels on that plate...today after I reinstalled my freshly rebuilt carb (rebuilt courtesy of 1BAD401 and his dad who spent the whole day helping me rebuild it (it was over a 320 mile roundtrip to Travis' dad's house where we did it)) i fired it up and the engine was loping real bad...it loped for prolly 20 seconds before the idle smoothed out (I assume that this was while the bowl filled with gas) and when it finally smoothed out...it started dripping gas like a mother out of the front area of the carb.
I am assuming it is a bad hose where the fuel filter connects to the carb, but I am starting to wonder if somwthing else might have contributed.One of the things we discovered in the rebuild was the the DSPO had cranked the lean/rich knob out so far that the choke was rendered completly inoperable. (Also the needles were frozen in the down position). Is it possible that the PO had cranked that knob down because this carb was overflowing or something? I really couldnt tell where the gas was coming from, but it seemed like it was everywhere quick with the major concentration right at the front near that brass fitting where the fuel line goes intot he carb. I'll replace that on monday and re-teflon the brass fitting's threads, but is it possible that the gas leak is partially coming from under the carb at the junction of the carb body and the intake manifold's base? It seems to me that any gas coming from that area should be pretty dern low in quantity....or is it possible? Anybody got any thoughts on this?
Hopefully what will happen is that monday after doing the hose and the brass fittings, it will be problem - solved, but just in case that doesn't happen, what are some of the crazy things y'all have seen carbs do relating to gas leaks that might help me in my situation? Suggestions?
BTW
I'd like to dedicate this space to a special shoutout to my homie 1BAD401 and to his pa. You two deserve the FSJers of the month award
Don S gets a honorary mention because he offered to help me rebuild the carb too...it was the whole idea of trying to get a gas-y carbuerator on a commecial airline to bring the carb to TX that made that not work out so good....thanks anyway... [img]smile.gif[/img]
[ November 24, 2002, 05:24 PM: Message edited by: jode ]
.. that I have to inform you of my thoughts… 
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