Re: 443 died, now will not start

Posted by Spencer B. On 2023/9/16 15:18:51

So after a few more hours working on this I figured out a couple of things, I think. While I’m still not sure what was keeping it from running a few days ago, I’ve now confirmed that fuel is getting from the gravity tank to the carb. Removed the fuel line and no obstruction. But then I found that, now the gravity tank was bone dry. I think the problem there is that when I took the carb apart and put it back together, there was a damaged gasket that I didn’t replace, here:

Without that gasket it has been slowly dripping fuel, which eventually dried out my gravity tank (thus why no fuel getting to my float chamber, to state the obvious).

I’ve order a replacement gasket set from straight-eight.com, so once that’s in I’m going to put it in and hopefully that will fix the slow drip - everything else seems to be doing OK now.

(BTW big kev, thanks for the tip I did check and there was no obstruction of the pinhole gas tank vent.)

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