Re: Leaky carb and backfiring

Posted by Jim Rogowsky on March 06, 1998 at 01:23:56

In Reply to: Leaky carb and backfiring
posted by Eric on March 03, 1998 at 23:31:47

ve been working our family's 1929 Model A Roadster Pickup and I've run into two perplexing problems.

: 1) The carburator leaks like crazy... mostly from the
: bottom around the mounting bolt, but also around the main seal. I've replace whatever gaskets and washers that were there when I took it apart... and its better... but still far
: too much leaking to be normal.

: 2) its running great... but whenever I cut the ignition it backfires... but not right away... it takes a few seconds... and then BOOM... or is that BANG? Could this be the result of
: advancing the timing lever too much? Or what else?

: Thank you!

: Eric
Eric, It could be that the flange is warped where the carb bolts to the manifold causeing the leak or maybe your float is sticking in the carb. I had problems with leaking too but my carb was stripped sso i had to drill it out and run bolds thru to hold it in place,as well as replacing the float.This solved my problem.




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