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> I'm worried about both your needle valves being OK when in one carb it doesn't > seem to let the fuel in. Do you think you might have tilted the carb a lot when > removing it? Doubt it. There was fuel in there; it just seemed that the level was quite low. I suppose I'd have to start the engine and then open the carb to be sure. I tested the needle valves by blowing through them, and by blowing through the fuel tube with the valve installed and pressing the valve. How else can I test them? > Without cut-off valves, if you park the car pointing up a steep hill, the fuel > from a full tank can fill up a cylinder and cause damage when you try to start. > In most other circumstances there's no problem. My car has always been parked in the same place on my driveway since I've had it. So here's the next question: what's the chance the engine has been damaged by being filled with petrol? I haven't tried to start the engine since I realised what's going on. However, I really hope that what I thought was the battery not having the strength to turn the engine was not in fact the engine having a metal-on-metal moment and starting to seize up or something. The water level in the battery really was very low and after I topped it up things improved. Someone tell me I'm being paranoid. Daniel Baum 1969 Type 34 automatic http://www.qldesign.com/type34 ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/