[T3] Carburetor problem

["Everett Barnes" <everettb@thesamba.com>]

<x-flowed>The past couple days my '66 Type 3 Ghia has been hesitating under a medium 
load.  I thought maybe I had an ignition problem or possibly dirt in the 
carbs as it felt like a cylinder wasn't firing sometimes.  Weird thing was, 
it mainly seemed to occur only when the car was cold. 

I ran through all the normal stuff like dwell, timing, checked the spark 
plug wires, fuel filter, etc..  I decided to replace the cap & rotor since I 
had never done that, they looked a bit burnt, and the cap was still one of 
the old brown bakelite ones which they haven't made for years.  It started 
and idled a lot smoother after the installation but still had a hesitation 
problem in the mornings. 

Last night I pulled off the tops of the stock dual carbs. to see if there 
was any crap in the bowl.  Surprise, the left-hand side "power fuel" pipe 
had fallen down into the fuel bowl under the float.  This is the little pipe 
that sticks down from the top 1/2 of the carburetor to provide extra fuel 
under load. 

Stuck it back in, problem solved. 

Questions for the future:
1. What should the resistance be for a "good" rotor?  1K ohms?  Mine was 
reading 3K.  I cleaned the end with some sandpaper and it went down to 
around 1K but I decided to replace it and keep the original one as an 
emergency spare.
2. What should the resistance be for "good" spark plug wires (the ends 
really)?  1K ohms as well?  Mine read as 1k but one reads a bit low, around 
940 ohms.  The engine was hot so maybe that affected it. 

--
Everett Barnes
'66 Type 34
Phoenix, AZ 

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