Re: [T3] SOLVED! (was Haunted Engine)

[John Jaranson <jaransonT3@comcast.net>]

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> probably run the car out of gas so put some in the tank and still 
> nothing.
> You can't exactly dump gas down a side draft carb so I took the screws 
> out
> and removed the top of it.  The float chamber was empty.  I poured gas 
> in it
> and lo and behold the gas seemed to be running out as quickly as I 
> could fil
> lit.  There is a screw on teh bottom right hand side of the float 
> chamber
> that had fallen out!  This must have happened when I did the burnout.  
> I
> pulled the carb, replaced the screw (it was still sitting there on the
> engine tin) and fired the car up.
This sounds very familiar....except it happened to Sophy at 80 mph in 
the middle of nowhere on the way to Parma for the first Invasion.  She 
still ran, being dual carbed, but ran very rough.  Was probably the 
scariest moment on the whole trip.....all that gas running down over 
the hot engine.

Fortunately, no fire and the brass plug was just laying there on the 
tin of the engine.

Later,
John Jaranson
'66 Square (Sophy)
'71 Fasty (Jane - darkside project in waiting)
various parts.....don't we all.
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