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How To Keep Rain Water Off My Carby?
Oppressa - March 12th, 2003 at 10:08 AM

My car was at the trimmers overnight and they left the rear part sticking out in the rain. Anyway, the next morning the carby was filled with rain water. How do you guys prevent this from happening without restricting airflow to the carby. See pic below:

http://oppressa.freeservers.com/carby.jpg

Bizarre - March 12th, 2003 at 10:53 AM

Opressa

got to be something else wrong
I am running dual IDF's with stand offs on my deck lid and in all this rain i have "NO" problems.
Plus my car is not garaged!

Where are you finding the water - inside the carb?

aussiebug - March 12th, 2003 at 11:36 AM

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Originally posted by 62kombieute
get an internal rain sheild
some models come factory fitted


The "2 slot" engine lids (70 and 71) have a factory fitted metal rain shield under the lid, but none of the "4 slot" lids have the rain shield - there simply is no room with the larger paper air cleaner, so cars with the 4-slot lids do get wet engines to some extent.

Whether a "2 slot" raiin shield would fit with the non-stock carb and aircleaners shown above I don't know, but even if it did - the shape of that rain shield suits the position of the 2 slots, so the inner and outer edge of the 4 slots would not be covered.

You CAN get external slot covers - a sort of umbrella which sits over the slots - leaving the underside open to allow airflow through the slots. I haven't seen one for a while now but I'll bet some one still has them.

Oppressa - March 12th, 2003 at 01:51 PM

Sweet, thanks guys. Just to clear up any confusion: it's a 71 bug but when I got the new engine I had the 4 slot engine cover put on for better breathing!

OvalGlen - March 12th, 2003 at 05:58 PM

perhaps you could get a piece of perspex cut ad attach it temporarily with some sort of L shape turn locks that hook on at the grills. Pieces of tubing on the L hooks where they hook on to the grills to save the paint.
They will need to be able to be inserted and then turned 1/4 turn to save them falling off.
You could quickly lock this on when rainy.

70AutoStik - March 12th, 2003 at 11:41 PM

Some good ideas there - you'll actually find rain won't cause too many problems on a regularly run engine. Water doesn't mix with oil or fuel and the engine should burn it off pretty quick. Don't store it without taking care of this, though.

jeffh - March 13th, 2003 at 09:20 AM

Another approach would be to make a plate about 1" bigger all round with turned down edges and fit this on top of the air cleaner top with rubber washers. this way the water will drip off clear of the air cleaner base.
Get the water out it will sit in the bottom of the carby and cause corrosion.
Jeff

Quickbug - March 14th, 2003 at 11:34 AM

Word to Blue74 - i have twin kadrons on the 72Super and it sits out in the pouring rain - starts and runs fine...
Id be looking for another problem...