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The fitting? Are you talking about where the gas goes in to the carb? or WHAT DAMN FITTING ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? you have me lost. I have 32PDSIT's on both of my squarebacks and you have me lost. I need a idle cutoff deal but instead of the but off it just screws in and has 4 holes in the sides and one on the end. I need two of these i cant find my carb rebuilt kit paper to tell you exactly what its called but they make this piece with a solenoid and without i guess depending on the year of the car that the carb came on or something >From Chris Swafford:www.geocities.com/motorcity/garage/4265/ 537Buckeye 36LSB S.W. Corner of Cinti,Oh In the Hills 71'Beautiful stock Squareback half in primer 73'Squareback (More than solid) HELP ME IN GOING INSAINE 68'Bug w/swingaxle (I hate thoes)Oh well! On Thu, 9 Jul 1998 13:05:58 -0400 Gurrola_J <Gurrola_J@BLS.GOV> writes: >I have suffered yet another goddam setback in my restoration of my >daily >driver. I was all set to take it out and drive the damn thing when a >fuel leak I thought I had fixed several months ago reared its ugly >head. >It seems that several years ago when I had the carbs rebuilt the >mechanic reinserted the brass fuel fitting using some teflon tape and >stuck it in there. I looked at it and didn't think too much of it >until it started to leak recently and then I realized what a problem I >have. I tried using Liquid Solder but that only worked until >yesterday >when I noticed the leak. > >I thought that perhaps tapping the carb body could be the answer but >there isn't enough material and the aluminum is sure to break the >first >time I would turn the fitting. > >Can I insert a slightly larger fitting and press fit it back on the >carb >body? Can I weld more material around that area so that it CAN be >tapped? Can I fire bomb the bum who rebuilt it? > >Everybody get cracking on this. We are not leaving until this is >fixed!!!! > >As a side note: This, to me, seems to be a weakness of the otherwise >splendid Solex dual carbs. If I, or we, can come up with a solution I >think we should send out a TSB on it. These carbs are getting rarer >by >the day and we need to keep them on the road. > > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]