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<x-charset iso-8859-1>On Sunday 27 January 2002 11:31, markse@mo-sys.com wrote: > Well I had the carbs off and apart again this weekend. The only things I > can find wrong with them (apart from the slight slack in the throttle > shafts) is that the choke diaphragms are holed, and the throttle lifting > cam/spring return/choke shaft was a bit gummed up. I did not bother > checking the diaphragms last time as there were no replacements in the kit > and the function of these did not seem significant. Looking at them more > closely I can see that a hole here can short the idle circuit as the vacuum > take-off for these is just below the throttle disk. Would this have a > significant effect on the operation of the carbs. The holes are only small > and I glued them up with some puncture repair cement- I will try and get > some better ones from T3D on Monday. I cleaned up and re-lubed the > cam/spring gubbins and hope they work a bit better. > Also I was wondering about adjusting the accelerator pump settings. The > connecting shaft to the pump lever has 3 holes in it and a split pin that > adjusts the amount the pump can charge each pump stroke. At the moment the > split pins are in the outermost holes which means the pump will charge the > max amount and accelerating will be the richest. I can't find any info on > setting this so wondered if anyone had any views on whether it would be a > good idea to shift the split pin in a bit to save some petrol when > accelerating? > There is an article on my web site about adjusting the T-3 carbs, including the accelerator pumps. It is part of the Hard Starting document. http://www.classicvw.org/vwdocs.html -- Russ Wolfe '71 Fastback AT '66 Fastback MT (IT DRIVES) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe </x-charset>