Hi guys - hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!
So, I hooked up the Lone Wolf 3000 remote starter and me and the Mrs watched closely to find out where in blazes the fuel was leaking from.
This is what we found...
Yup, pissing right out of the bowl vent tubes.
The very kind
@HawkRod called me on the phone - it was great to hear a kind voice and felt great to move past being a cyber friend - spoke a lot of great advice, the first thing to try being whip the top off the carb, check the floats are a) not perished, and b) set correctly, and check for any contaminates that are not allowing the needles to close up, therefor flooding the bowls. Very kind that people from this forum take so much of their time to help others, cheers Hawk!
So tonight, Monday 28th Nov, I braved the heavy snow and low temps, and went into the garage, carefully undoing the eight bolts that hold the carb together, so I could pull the top off.
It was very hard to move. In fact, it didn't move at all. So I had a quick look about to see if there's any other bolts holding the top down. There was not BUT while I was peeking about, I noticed this...
^^^ The brass 90 that pokes through a hole in the needle plate (if that's the correct term) was not in the hole.
The one at the other end was in place though...
So I spent a while getting them both into place. It seemed awfully loose and the brass 90s could easily pop back out, so I gently bent the plate ends a little, which closed the gap and allowed both brass 90s to seat into their hole properly.
Much better! Excellent.
No.
I still could not separate the top of the carb. Is it glued? I don't know. I didn't want to pry on it by any means so I uncoupled the throttle cable and took it off, and over to my bench.
When twirling the carb around on my bench, looking for why I could not separate the top, I noticed some black flakes. Didn't think anything of it at first until I saw this...
A crack in the plastic, and the black flakes must be it breaking down and crumbling apart. I put barely enough force on the top plate to really see how stuck it all was, so I'm guessing it being drenched in fuel all week didn't help the plastic, and neither did the 22F temps. It's pretty clear to me that this carb is not supposed to be on my car.
So what next? This is a disaster.