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| posted on August 3rd, 2004 at 08:29 PM |
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My bug broken
I was driving home today and the bug started to splatter, i thought it was out of fuel, swaped to the reserve tank but still a problem. The long and
short of it is that it won't start now, had to tow it home.
The is petrol leaking from the base of the carbi....my question is??? Is this likley just to be a seal and if so are they cheap....i don't have any
money and need to drive...
Please help!!!!
:cry:cry:cry:puke
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| posted on August 3rd, 2004 at 08:35 PM |
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mate i had a prob like this it was flooding the flot was full of fuel
and was leaking out the base every where
worth a look btw what engine do u have?
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things could be worse you could live in kentucky
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| posted on August 3rd, 2004 at 08:51 PM |
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rebuild the carb ..... $30 and your set
Adam
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nwarner
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| posted on August 3rd, 2004 at 08:56 PM |
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Cheers,
It's a 1600 twinport engine.
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| posted on August 3rd, 2004 at 09:10 PM |
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rebuild the carb ..... $30 and your set
Adam
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nwarner
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| posted on August 3rd, 2004 at 10:12 PM |
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don't i need to know what i am doing to rebuild the carb????
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| posted on August 4th, 2004 at 09:27 AM |
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http://www.geocities.com/aussiebug1970/fuellinks.html
read here
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| posted on August 4th, 2004 at 10:03 AM |
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thanks mate, looks complicated, might get an expert to do it... I would love to try it all one day but thisis the only car we got so don't want to
stuff it even more
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| posted on August 6th, 2004 at 08:31 AM |
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The float could be stuck; give a few hard taps on the side of the float bowl with the blunt end of a screwdriver.
Otherwise, many times I've just stripped carbs down and blown the jets and passages through with WD40 aerosol with the straw thingy attached.
check the float at the same time.
It works for me.
They are not that complicated
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| posted on August 6th, 2004 at 03:36 PM |
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yeah carbs are usually very easy to rebuild, its more a matter of cleaning and changing gaskets. The only hard bit is getting the throttle linkage
tight, it might need to be reamed and bushed, which u probably can get done at a carby shop
Jon
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| posted on August 6th, 2004 at 05:12 PM |
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WD40 can get gummy. use carbie cleaner...a gizillon times better.
from super cheap, of any auto store...even seen it a super bargins (cheapy shop in melb)
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| posted on August 6th, 2004 at 06:13 PM |
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Before you rebuild the carby, give it a quick degreese and determaim where the leek is. Its quite common for late beetle carbs to have like a disk at
the front about half way down. If its loose or hase fallen out (somtime still sitting in the engine bay) it can leek badly and then start sucking air
causing a similar prob to what you've got. if this is the prob beleive it or not you just use Aredite or a two part epoxy glue, it would seem that
its petrol resistant. And by the way clean the area well be you glue.
Good luck
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| posted on August 7th, 2004 at 09:45 AM |
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thanks everyone. It is all sorted now. Had the guys at Custom off road have a look. Was all good for a day then started flooding again. Replaced the
needel and seat and it is good so far.
The good thing about things going wrong is i learnt a lot about how my carb works and how to fix it.
So from a new dubber to all you experienced ones. Cheers.
no doubt i will soon be asking about some other part. :thumb
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