Kombi dripping fuel

fekkinell Wolfsburg Wizard

655 posts · joined Jun 2005 · 19 Jul 2006, 11:06 am

#513054

Buggerit... just as everything starts working really nicely, the right hand carberettor has decided to start dripping fuel. It's not the fuel line or brass fittings cos it's dripping from somewhere underneath...

...any ideas as to what it might be? ❓

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mackaymanx Custom Title Time!

1,611 posts · joined Jan 2006 · 19 Jul 2006, 11:07 am

#513055

Accelerator pump diaphram?

[ Edited on 19-7-2006 by mackaymanx ]

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76camper Fahrvergnugen

884 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 19 Jul 2006, 1:30 pm

#513085

havent done much work to the carbs on my bus but do they have a fuel bowl drainer? Might be worth just checking all the bolts around the fuel bowl as one may hav wiggled loose, check float bowl screws (flat head looking down onto carby)...

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kevo Officially Full-On Dubber

371 posts · joined Mar 2005 · 24 Jul 2006, 12:09 am

#514744

has happened to mine about 3 -4 times,

dissconnect the linkage from the two carbs, loosen off the two bolts holding on the carb to the inlet manifold and remove carb, take onto clean bennch and strip (within reason ya know) then put back together, i garanteeeee this will work

yer it usually leaks at the bottom where that spring arm thing is, real common eh

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Purple Martin Fahrvergnugen

913 posts · joined Feb 2003 · 24 Jul 2006, 10:09 am

#514806

Could be a stuck needle valve making the bowl overflow - when this happens the fuel can come out of all sorts of bits of the carb. Take the top off the float-bowl, replace the needle valve (they are very cheap), put the top back on.

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