Re: Help with carburetor
Posted by moodydavid16 On 2023/11/27 21:27:01
Update:
I have taken apart and cleaned my carburetor again.
The flooding issue turned out to be due to the float valve being damaged.
The original needle and seat had been replaced with a float valve that uses a rubber pad that pushes against a seat rather than a needle. This rubber pad had been badly damaged (I’m guessing it got pushed against its seat too hard by the guy who rebuilt the carburetor)
- picture 1
Because this had been damaged I chose to replace it with the needle and seat from my parts carburetor(I think it came off of a Hudson from a similar year) rather than reusing the original 2 piece needle and seat.
-picture 2
I also decided to replace the original fuel screen with the one from my parts carb as this one was much cleaner (it was slightly different in that the original one had its top folded in but the spare one has both ends open)
-picture 3
This ended up fixing the fuel leak problem, not sure about my other issue where the engine shuts off after just a few seconds of idling. It was getting too dark to see and I could not find my keys.
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I have taken apart and cleaned my carburetor again.
The flooding issue turned out to be due to the float valve being damaged.
The original needle and seat had been replaced with a float valve that uses a rubber pad that pushes against a seat rather than a needle. This rubber pad had been badly damaged (I’m guessing it got pushed against its seat too hard by the guy who rebuilt the carburetor)
- picture 1
Because this had been damaged I chose to replace it with the needle and seat from my parts carburetor(I think it came off of a Hudson from a similar year) rather than reusing the original 2 piece needle and seat.
-picture 2
I also decided to replace the original fuel screen with the one from my parts carb as this one was much cleaner (it was slightly different in that the original one had its top folded in but the spare one has both ends open)
-picture 3
This ended up fixing the fuel leak problem, not sure about my other issue where the engine shuts off after just a few seconds of idling. It was getting too dark to see and I could not find my keys.
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