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- From: "Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 23:18:14 -0500
Terry, you owe Doc & me a beer. Get Doc a Hamms or Pabst, I'll take a Cuzcoor Pilsner Urquell, heehee....Something you might consider also doing is filling the tank with some good Chevron Techron 93, yup, about $2 a gallon. Also when you do that, put a can of B-12 Chemtool in the tank. Between the two it will clean out any stuff that may eb causing the float to stick. Oneof the problems is that there are too many f*cking blends of gasoline all over the US. What is sold in say, Houston, is different thant what is in pumps in San Antonio, different in Dallas, different in Shreveport, to LittleRock and so on. But some fo these blends, or as I like to call them 'designer gas' wreck havoc on fuel systems. Some will gum up fuel pumps and carbsif left idel in as little as 6 months. Others eat away at fuel lines, and gaskets in carbs and fuel pumps. Something you also might want to do is pull your fuel "in" line to the carb and blast away in there with carb cleaner. This too will dissolve any crap that may be in there. Good luck,
Eddie Stakes
tips from the 2nd worst polluted city in American and shitgas MTBE laden foul smelling, ozone choking, fuel.
Eddie Stakes
www.planethoustonamx.com
*Note volume of email is
extremely heavy, expect
5-12 day responses
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From: twa1950@xxxx
To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 8:18 PM
Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] Question
Well, you guys are right my carb problem is the float. I came home and tightened the screws and taped on the carb. and the Gremmie started right up with no leaks. I drove it about 5 miles ran fine and still no leaks. I decided since I didn't clean him up last night I would tonight and make the rounds tomorrow night. Better car shows anyway. After cleaning him I decided to start him up again about 2 hours later. Started right up but after about a minute it started running rough and the carb was leaking. Tapped it with the screw driver it started running good and the carb stopped leaking. Question is do you think this will be something that clears up on its own or doyou think I should quit driving him until I tear down the carb. and fix the float. My feeling is like Doc said just the lack of driving causes these problems and driving them tends to clear them up. If the carb. was a! way from the exhaust manifold I wouldn't give it a second thought. I would just keep the screwdriver handy and go on. Gas dripping on a hot manifold is no thrill for me though. Still think I will go with the handy screwdriver and hope it clears up on its own. Any thoughts. Again thanks Eddie and Doc.
Terry
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry, you owe Doc & me a beer. Get Doc a Hamms
or Pabst, I'll take a Cuzco or Pilsner Urquell, heehee....Something you might
consider also doing is filling the tank with some good Chevron Techron 93, yup,
about $2 a gallon. Also when you do that, put a can of B-12 Chemtool in the
tank. Between the two it will clean out any stuff that may eb causing the float
to stick. One of the problems is that there are too many f*cking blends of
gasoline all over the US. What is sold in say, Houston, is different thant what
is in pumps in San Antonio, different in Dallas, different in Shreveport, to
Little Rock and so on. But some fo these blends, or as I like to call them
'designer gas' wreck havoc on fuel systems. Some will gum up fuel pumps and
carbs if left idel in as little as 6 months. Others eat away at fuel lines, and
gaskets in carbs and fuel pumps. Something you also might want to do is pull
your fuel "in" line to the carb and blast away in there with carb cleaner. This
too will dissolve any crap that may be in there. Good luck,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Eddie Stakes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>tips from the 2nd worst polluted city in American
and shitgas MTBE laden foul smelling, ozone choking, fuel. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Eddie Stakes<BR><A
href="http://www.planethoustonamx.com";>www.planethoustonamx.com</A><BR>*Note
volume of email is<BR>extremely heavy, expect<BR>5-12 day responses</DIV>
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<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2
FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Well, you guys are right my carb problem is the
float. I came home and tightened the screws and taped on the carb. and the
Gremmie started right up with no leaks. I drove it about 5 miles ran fine and
still no leaks. I decided since I didn't clean him up last night I would
tonight and make the rounds tomorrow night. Better car shows anyway. After
cleaning him I decided to start him up again about 2 hours later. Started
right up but after about a minute it started running rough and the carb was
leaking. Tapped it with the screw driver it started running good and the carb
stopped leaking. Question is do you think this will be something that clears
up on its own or do you think I should quit driving him until I tear down the
carb. and fix the float. My feeling is like Doc said just the lack of driving
causes these problems and driving them tends to clear them up. If the carb.
was a! way from the exhaust manifold I wouldn't give it a second thought. I
would just keep the screwdriver handy and go on. Gas dripping on a hot
manifold is no thrill for me though. Still think I will go with the handy
screwdriver and hope it clears up on its own. Any thoughts. Again thanks Eddie
and Doc.<BR>Terry</FONT> <BR></FONT>
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