Hi all, advice would be appreciated on my issue. Patient is a '60 Beetle with a standard 1200 engine. It was needed for a special occasion this weekend but now looks like it won't make it. The carby I had on it had issues so I borrowed a carby of the same kind (28) from a friend. It ran much better than mine in the garage and I only needed it to do a short drive for the special occasion.
It drove OK, giving a bit of a gurgle sometimes but OK. Today I had to drive it across town in preparation for its trip, it started to get fairly warm in the cabin but was driving OK, I checked the engine once to make sure I had no leaks but all was dry. After maybe 20 mins driving it seemed to start to struggle, having more of a cough / gurgle, driving less and less, until the accelerator would do nothing. When I pulled over I had some smoke coming from the back, I have a leak on one valve cover and it leaks onto a heater box, so assumed the smoke would be this oil burning off.
After maybe 5 minutes I tried the car and it started again no issues, off we drove, getting maybe 5 minutes up the road before it did the same thing - gurgle cough, no power, stopped with some smoke. Both times there has been a petrol smell occurring. I didn't try the car after that and had it towed.
I am thinking it is possible that the carby is running rich, this situation happened when the car warmed up, and so I was wondering if the car is drowning in excess fuel? The fact that the car restarted and drove for a while makes me hope it isn't a terminal activity (just got rego'd Friday), if it isn't an easy fix the car certainly won't make it for its planned trip.
Ideas? Thanks heaps!
phantom Wolfsburg Wizard
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