Carbie float sticking

subius · Post by **subius** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:37 am

Hey guys,

recently I swapped a ea81 twin carb manifold onto my ea82. Goes great, except occaisionly the float in the drivers side carb sticks, consequently flooding the engine till it stalls, and leaking fuel all over the hot block.

not ideal. Anyone ever experienced floats sticking in carbies? twins or single? Mechanic had a quick look when they were being tuned and said there was nothing obvious he could see.

any ideas ?

i do have a fire extinguisher in the car now too

subius · Post by **subius** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:42 am

heres a coupla pics, not that exiting really but something to look at

subelover · Post by **subelover** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:42 pm

hey sam not as exciting as my camo wagon

lol nah o thought the sticking floats were fixed when u had them tuned last week? might have to have a squiz when ur back in the state

cheers Ben

subius · Post by **subius** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:04 pm

nah they had a quick look and said they couldnt see anything wrong.

am in hobart till this sunday if you want to catch up

littlewhiteute · Post by **littlewhiteute** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:07 pm

More than likely the needle and seat is binding and not allowing the float to rise.
Or a piece of your fuel line has gone through holding the needle off the seat,
happened to a mate of mine after he assembled his carby fuel line.

But if you can't fix it, I'll buy the twins off you, maybe?

subius · Post by **subius** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:06 pm

thanks for the advice. I'll check it out.

sorry the twins aren't for sale, i've only just put them on the car

rob83ke70 · Post by **rob83ke70** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:08 pm

that looks sweet!!! just as sweet as my factory ke15 sprinter toyota twin carburettors, or my pair of hs4 su carburettors on the corolla now!!

carburettors are heaps better as a pair hey

Busdriver · Post by **Busdriver** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:30 pm

What are the floats made of? are they metal or that strange black stuff that they sometimes use? have seen the black stuff suffer from osmosis and fill up with fuel and they become sinks instead of floats!